Italian headline writers found a welcoming name for 54-year-old Soviet Polit-burocrat Mikhail Suslov: “The Butcher of Budapest.” The butcher, accompanied by Russia’s ranking woman Communist, Ekaterina ...

Moscow’s Pravda had a new editor, L. F. Ilichev, former editor of Izvestia. He succeeded Mikhail Suslov. It became known only when Pravda (Truth) identified Ilichev as its editor in a list of notables ...

How did it really happen? Pieced together from reports in the non-Russian Communist press and triangulated by a few facts gleaned by Westerners in Moscow, the story of Nikita Khrushchev’s fall is ...

The evident confusion in recent Soviet policymaking (TIME, May 5) got a pat explanation by the Polish Communists, who professed to see a power struggle between Politburocrat Mikhail Suslov, identified ...