Beria succeeding Stalin long-term?

I was wondering if anyone had an idea for what differences a Soviet Union under Beria might look like. This is under the assumption that after taking power he is able to retain it long-term.

What crises would he face and what are his likely reactions to them?

What would he do differently and similarly to Khrushchev?

Who would become central figures in his administration?

I really hope someone has an idea of answers for these questions.
 
I think that a major problem for Beria are that he was personal a monster, he was simply too widely hated by rest of the Soviet leadership for his behaviooue to them letting him gain power.
 
What would it take for him to stay in power and when did he become completely unacceptable? and the rest of the questions still work if we set aside the getting to power part.
 
He was a sexual predator and was as ruthless as Stalin there really was no way for the Soviet inner circle to trust him, Stalin and other members of thebinner circle wouldn't leave women in their families alone with him as an attestment to just how awful he was
 
The only way for him to come to power would be through a coup--which was actually possible in spring 1953, given the large number of MVD troops in Moscow. But even if successful in giving Beria "Moscow and the persons of most of his opponents" (to use Robert Conquest's formulation in *Power and Policy in the USSR*) this would be a terribly risky step--would his coup be accepted by military and party/state officials outside Moscow? Could there even be civil war? Beria tried instead the supposedly safer course of gradually building himself a political base by championing the rights of the non-Russian nationalities. This might have worked in the long run *if* the struggle could be kept on a political level--Beria might gradually build himself support among non-Russian cadres. But as it was, Beria's denunciation of Russification was simply one of the things that alarmed his Presidium colleagues into taking action against him as soon as possible. (The leading casualty of Beria's drive for the rights of the non-Russians was Melnikov, who was removed as First Secretary in Ukraine. But that would not have helped Beria in any case, because Melnikov's replacement, Kirichenko, was a Khrushchev man.)
 
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