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 | | After removing Khrushchev from power, the leaders of the Politburo (as the Presidium was renamed in 1966 by the Twenty-Third Party Congress) and Secretariat again established a collective leadership. |
 | | As was the case following Stalin’s death, several individuals, including Aleksei Kosygin, Nikolai Podgorny, and Leonid I. Brezhnev, contended for power behind a facade of unity. |
 | | In December 1965, for example, he succeeded in elevating Podgorny to the ceremonial position of chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the highest legislative organization in the government, thus eliminating him as a rival. |
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