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As chairman of all three, and the only Central Committee 40 The Soviet Political Executive, 1917-1986 Presidium member with a place in the other two, Khrushchev had now given his personal authority a formidable structural basis. Some writers, notably the Medvedevs, have characterised Khrushchev as a 'dictator' in the period following his June 1957 victory. 67 Others, such as Carl Linden and Michel Tatu, have emphasised the continued limitations on his power, especially from 1960 on. 68 Both views need to be qualified.
It was now Khrushchev, listed as no. 5 in the first months after Stalin's death, who had become the most prominent leader, and early the next year Malenkov was forced to resign from the premiership in favour of Khrushchev's junior ally Bulganin. As Khrushchev's power grew it eventually provoked a 'revolt' in the core membership of the oligarchy, when in June 1957 a majority of the Central Committee Presidium voted to remove him from the First Secretaryship. But Khrushchev contrived to turn the tables on his rivals and critics and get them out of the Presidium, then proceeding to stack it with his own proteges.
H. Rigby 23 members and three candidates to nine and eight respectively, the Orgburo from seven and three to thirteen and seven, and the Secretariat from three members to five full and three candidate members. This reflected the dispersal and fluidity of power due to the factionalised state of the inner leadership, the pressures of factional alliances, and the success of Stalin in bringing supporters into the outer circles of power as potential replacements for the Old Guard. The dispersal and fluidity of power during the 1920s also make it unusually difficult to identify clear boundaries to the ruling oligarchy and an unambiguous focus and hierarchy within it.