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Old Bolsheviks Drop From Soviet Leadership
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan analyzes the shift from veteran Old Bolsheviks to a younger, specialist leadership in the Soviet Union. He notes Mikoyan and Shvernik remain as advisers while others are replaced by a generation shaped by internal focus and limited revolutionary zeal, with the average age of the presidium about 59.
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Soviet Union
Stalin
Anastas
Mikoyan
Communist Party
Nikolai Shvernik
Alexei N. Kosygin
Leonid I. Brezheny
Alexander N. Shelepin
Party
U.S. S.R
Nikolai Podgoryn
Dmitry Polyansky