ABSTRACT
The Khrushchevs and Malenkovs, and men younger still, who now form the post-Stalinist "collective leadership", are the men Stalin gathered around him in his rise to personal dictatorship. In theory the collective leadership is conceivable that a committee government, a Directoire, a duumvirate, triumvirate or decemvirate, could wield autocratic, dictatorial, and total power. But the whole course of Soviet history and the whole dynamic of autocracy, dictatorship, and totalitarianism work against it. In theory it is conceivable that a committee government, a Directoire, a duumvirate, triumvirate or decemvirate, could wield autocratic, dictatorial, and total power. But the whole course of Soviet history and the whole dynamic of autocracy, dictatorship, and totalitarianism work against it. At the Nineteenth Congress, Khrushchev delivered the report on the revision of the party statutes that represented a further tightening of totalitarian controls. After Stalin's death, he became First Secretary of the party, and led the new drives in agriculture.
