Anastas Mikoyan: A Deng Xiaoping of the USSR?

Could Anastas Mikoyan have saved the Soviet Union?

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 53.8%
  • No

    Votes: 24 46.2%

  • Total voters
    52
Mikoyan was one of the only Communist politicians who cares about the consumer industry IRRC.

Stalin himself joked that Mikoyan "cared more about ice cream than about communism.

ITTL, I can picture his brand of reformed Communism, if it succeeds or not, being called "Sundae Communism" because of its association with consumer products.
 
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What do you mean?

The threat to the party and bureaucratic value-form economy isn’t from “the right” and intensified wage labour.

It is from the left with the working class abolishing the party. Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968 are only the most well known and furthest extensified examples.
 
The threat to the party and bureaucratic value-form economy isn’t from “the right” and intensified wage labour.

It is from the left with the working class abolishing the party. Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968 are only the most well known and furthest extensified examples.

I don't know if that counts if left and right really apply here but in any case you are correct. The party itself was just a parasite and most workers would probably happily get rid of it.
 
Are there any realistic chances of Mikoyan coming to power?

The great 1956 Central European commonwealth of workers councils revolution is your best shot in my personal opinion, and then as a Nagyesque figure to try to keep a lid on things.

Maybe the anti-party bloc purge is deeper to the point that Khrushchev can be taken from a new course line—but that’s 57 after 56 has discredited the new course. And you don’t need to purge them before 56 because the antiparty bloc hasn’t proved dangerous yet.
 
The great 1956 Central European commonwealth of workers councils revolution is your best shot in my personal opinion, and then as a Nagyesque figure to try to keep a lid on things.

Maybe the anti-party bloc purge is deeper to the point that Khrushchev can be taken from a new course line—but that’s 57 after 56 has discredited the new course. And you don’t need to purge them before 56 because the antiparty bloc hasn’t proved dangerous yet.

I have a specific POD: Khrushchev causing a diplomatic outburst in 1957 (a possibility considering his temper tantrums) causes Mikoyan to side with Molotov's coup, only for Mikoyan to outmaneuver Molotov himself.
 
Stalin himself joked that Mikoyan "cared more about ice cream than about communism.

ITTL, I can picture his brand of reformed Communism, if it succeeds or not, being called "Sundae Communism" because of its association with consumer products.
The irony as OTL fidel castro did popularized ice cream in cuba thanks to his push for Coppelia
 
The irony as OTL fidel castro did popularized ice cream in cuba thanks to his push for Coppelia

I read a book about someone who part of Operation Peter Pan, which helped Cuban children escape Castro.

In the book, a passage mentions how a soda company was ruined by nationalization.

I bet the ice cream would taste terrible.
 
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