Leadership Contest

MALENKOV:

• his 'New Course' saw a war with capitalism as not inevitable and therefore resources could be directed away from arms and heavy industry towards customer goods and raising living standards
• this approach didn't mark an end to the conflict but a belief that although the collapse of capitalism was inevitable there was no need to engage in war to ensure its demise
• the NC was criticised by Khrushchev

KHRUSHCHEV:

• he emerged as leader of the Soviet Union after…