Khrushchev’s
Fall
HIn October 1964 the party leadership, having conspired for some time behind his back, stripped him of both his party secretaryship and the premiership.
HThe plot was led by three members of Khrushchev’s inner circle:
–Leonid Brezhnev, a veteran party administrator and as of July 1964 the second-ranking party secretary
–Nikolay Podgorny, a fellow CP secretary
–Aleksandr Shelepin, the head of the KGB
