The author of this policy was Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet secret police. Beria was not simply a detached administrator of death, he was a serial rapist who employed the apparatus of the

Nikolai Yezhov. Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Ежо́в, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈɫaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия; March 29, 1899 – December 23, 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police apparatus. Beria is now remembered chiefly as the executor of the final stages of Joseph Stalin's Great
In The Death of Stalin, which Iannucci adapted with Ian Martin and David Schneider from a French graphic novel about the power-grab following the Russian tyrant’s demise, he uses visual grandeur to heighten the petty, scabrous humour. Playing it straight is the secret. Turn down the volume and the picture would resemble any costume drama.
Nikita Khrushchev during a visit to East Berlin in August 1957, where he was greeted as the full head of the USSR. On September 7, 1953, six months after the death of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev became the first secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR. But at that time the government had more power than the party organs.

Summary: Several Russian politicians desperately attempt to solve the question (by scheming, plotting and conspiring) of who is to assume leadership of the Soviet Union after the death of dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953. Writers: written by Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin; based on the comic book 'The Death of Stalin' by Fabien

Second, while the film wrongly speeds up Beria's arrest, conviction, and execution into a matter of days after Stalin's death (which had been my faulty memory, too, before I looked it up), the film gets right the details of the events leading to the arrest, from Khrushchev leading the conspiracy to take down Beria, Krhushchev cajoling the exiled military leader Zhukov into helping depose Beria
Smilin_Dave • 10 yr. ago. Khrushchev was effectively part of the team that ran the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, along with Beria and Malenkov. So straight away you can see how he was in a good position to win the top job - he was already in a good position and was nominally aligned with his two enemies. Beria went first.
Stalin’s death, perhaps a murder orchestrated by secret policy head Lavrentiy Beria, ended a reign marked by promiscuous and arbitrary mass murder. Stalin’s chief lieutenants, all implicated tmZAkkO.
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