LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Molotov: Nikita Khrushchev
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The foregoing discussion seems to indicate that Molotov was isolated during the last years of Stalin and owed his return to center-stage to the support of the coalition of revisionists of various hues. The balance of forces then might have precluded his taking an active position against the de-Stalinization drive begun soon after Stalin's death. His silence on issues other than foreign policy matters ensured the consolidation of the victory. Possibly the fight was already lost before the 20th Congress. Molotov himself considers the fight lost before the 20th Congress when he lost out on the question of rapprochement with Tito. The Congress packed with delegates who lustily cheered Khrushchev filled the new CC with Khrushchev's supporters.
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In 1957, Nikita Khrushchev dismissed Molotov from all posts and expelled him from his position on the Central Committee and the Presidium. Khrushchev was moving against old Stalinists, and in 1962 Molotov was expelled from the Communist Party. His career as a high-ranking Communist revolutionary was over.
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