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New Soviet Leaders Rise While Old Bolsheviks Fade
Anastas Mikoyan, Nikolai Shvernik, and others fade from top power as a new Soviet leadership cohort emerges. Leaders born after 1917 emphasize technocratic expertise, while public opinion grows in influence and the Communist Party expands to 12 million members. The shift aims to strengthen the economy to advance world communist aims.
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Stalin
Anastas I. Mikoyan
U.S.S.R
Mikoyan
Communist Party
Nikolai Shvernik
Alexei N. Kosygin
Alpoongn
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexander N. Shelepin
Presidium
Nikolai Podgorny
Kremlin
Marily
United States
West
Khrushchev
Red China
Soviet Union
Soviet Communist Party