Malenkov, Georgi Maximilianovich, << MAH luhn `kawf` or mah lehn KAWF, gay AWR gih `mah` ksih mih LYAH nah vihch >> (1902-1988), became premier of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953. Nikita S. Khrushchev forced him to resign as premier in February 1955, and Malenkov became deputy premier under Premier Nikolai Bulganin. In June 1957, Malenkov tried to unseat Khrushchev as first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. He failed, and was sent to Kazakhstan. He was expelled from the party in 1964.
Malenkov was born in Orenburg on Jan. 13, 1902. He became Stalin’s private secretary in 1925. He became a member of the Politburo in 1946, and second secretary of the Presidium in 1952. Malenkov died on Jan. 14, 1988.
See also Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) (The rise of Khrushchev).
