No, not really. Khrushchev had to operate with the consent of the Politburo. The leading Party members were pretty aware of what happened with Stalin and didn’t want it to happen again. During most of the post-Stalin era, the Soviet Union was run far more like a bureaucratic oligarchy than as a one-man dictatorship.
No, not really. Khrushchev had to operate with the consent of the Politburo. The leading Party members were pretty aware of what happened with Stalin and didn’t want it to happen again. During most of the post-Stalin era, the Soviet Union was run far more like a bureaucratic oligarchy than as a one-man dictatorship.