Georgy Malenkov

**Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov** ( trans : Georgiy Maksimilianovich Malenkov) (8 January 1902 – 14 January 1988) was a Soviet politician who was the third leader of the Soviet Union and the fifth premier of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1955. However, just over a week later, he was forced to give up most of his power, but then remained the leader and premier of the country. He subsequently went on a power struggle with the party's First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev. Malenkov was eventually removed from his posts in 1955.

He was involved in World War II when Nazi Germany lead by Adolf Hitler carried out the Nazi Invasion of Russia. Malenkov was also involved in the Korean War just 5 years after World War II when Hitler and Mussolini both died in April 1945 and after Hirohito surrendered Japan in August 1945.

Malenkov formed a team with Nikolai Bulganin, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Lazar Kaganovich, and together they tried to throw Khrushchev out of power. He eventually won the battle for power, and in 1957 Malenkov was forced to leave his position in the Party Politburo. In 1961, he was kicked out of the Party and forced to move to Kazakhstan.

Along with Khrushchev, Malenkov was one of a few important members of Stalin's group of partners (called the "inner circle") who died a natural death, and was not executed. Together with Lavrentiy Beria and Khrushchev, Malenkov began the process of de-Stalinisation, the process began as soon as Stalin died in 1953 and ended in 1961.

## Career

On 23 December 1953, just months after Joseph Stalin died on 5 March 1953, Malenkov along with Nikita Khrushchev and Georgy Zhukov and other soviet officials executed Lavrentiy Beria in late 1953 who was the NKVD chief from 1938-1946 and the MVD from 1946-1953. In February 1955, Georgy Malenkov was replaced by Nikita Khrushchev.

Malenkov died in 1988, 33 years after being replaced by Khrushchev in 1955 and 3 years after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Georgy Malenkov
- **native name lang**: ru
- **image**: Georgy Malenkov 1953.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 1953
- **order**: 3rd
- **office**: Leader of the Soviet Union
- **premier**: _Himself_
- **term start**: 5 March 1953
- **term end**: 8 February 1955
- **predecessor**: Joseph Stalin
- **successor**: Nikita Khrushchev
- **order1**: 5th
- **office1**: Premier of the Soviet Union
- **1blankname1**: List of First Deputies of the Soviet Union, First Deputies
- **term start1**: 5 March 1953
- **term end1**: 8 February 1955
- **predecessor1**: Joseph Stalin
- **successor1**: Nikolai Bulganin
- **office2**: Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
- **premier2**: Nikolai Bulganin
- **term start2**: 9 February 1955
- **term end2**: 29 June 1957
- **premier3**: Joseph Stalin
- **term start3**: 2 August 1946
- **term end3**: 5 March 1953
- **premier4**: Joseph Stalin
- **term start4**: 15 May 1944
- **term end4**: 15 March 1946
- **office5**: Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union#Secretariat, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- **term start5**: 31 August 1948
- **term end5**: 16 October 1952
- **predecessor5**: Andrei Zhdanov
- **successor5**: Nikita Khrushchev (_de facto_)
- **office6**: Senior Secretary of Cadres of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- **term start6**: 18 March 1946
- **term end6**: 6 May 1946
- **predecessor6**: Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, Andrey Andreyev
- **successor6**: Alexey Kuznetsov (_de facto_)
- **birth name**: Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov
- **birth place**: Orenburg, Russian Empire
- **death place**: Moscow, Soviet Union
- **resting place**: Kuntsevo Cemetery, Moscow
- **party**: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- **partner**: Valeriya Golubtsova
- **children**: 3
- **alma mater**: Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow Highest Technical School