Georgy Malenkov

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1955

Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov (8 January 1902 [O.S. 26 December 1901] – 14 January 1988) was a Soviet politician who succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier and the overall leader of the Soviet Union in March 1953. Shortly thereafter, Malenkov entered into a power struggle with the party's First Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev, which culminated in his removal from the premiership in 1955 as well as the Central Committee Presidium in 1957. Georgy Malenkov served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and joined the Communist Party in 1920.

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