Georgy Malenkov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorgy Malenkov
Soviet politician
Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1902
Place of Birth: Orenburg, Orenburg Oblast, Russia
Date of Death: 14-Jan-1988
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Georgy Malenkov
- Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov (8 January 1902 [O.S.
- 26 December 1901] – 14 January 1988) was a Soviet politician who briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union.
- However, at the insistence of the rest of the Presidium, he relinquished control over the party in exchange for remaining first among equals as the country's Premier.
- Subsequently, Malenkov became embroiled in a power struggle ultimately culminating in his removal from the premiership in 1955 and the Presidium in 1957. Throughout his political career, Georgy Malenkov's personal connections with Vladimir Lenin significantly facilitated his ascent within the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- By 1925, he was entrusted with overseeing the party's records.
- This brought him into contact with Stalin who had by then successfully consolidated power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to become the de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
- As a result of this association, Malenkov became heavily involved in Stalin's purges before later being given sole responsibility over the Soviet missile program during World War II.
- From 1946 to 1947, he chaired the Council of Ministers Special Committee on Rocket Technology.
- In order to secure his position as Stalin's favorite, he successfully discredited Marshal Georgy Zhukov and suppressed all glory associated with Leningrad during World War II so that Moscow maintained its image as the Soviet Union's sole cultural and political capital.Following Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, Malenkov temporarily emerged as the Soviet leader's undisputed successor by replacing him as both Chairman of the Council of Ministers (or Premier) and the highest-ranking member of the party's Secretariat.
- However, only nine days later, the Politburo (then known as the Presidium) forced him to give up his position in the Secretariat while allowing him to retain the premiership.
- Henceforth, Malenkov presided over a collective leadership until being removed as Premier in 1955 by the party's First Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev.
- After later organizing a failed coup against Khrushchev in 1957, he was expelled from the Presidium and exiled to Kazakhstan in 1957, before ultimately being expelled from the Party altogether in November 1961.
- He officially retired from politics shortly afterwards.
- After a short sojourn in Kazakhstan, he returned to Moscow and kept a low profile for the remainder of his life.
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