In May 1957 the leaders of the Anti-Party group - Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich- were joined at the last minute by Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov, whom Kaganovich had convinced that the group had a majority. In fact, in the Presidium the group's proposal to replace Khrushchev as First Secretary with Prime Minister Nicolai Bulganin won with 7 to 4 votes, but Khrushchev argued that only the plenum of the Central Comitee could remove him from office. At an extraordinary session of the Central Committee held in late June, Khrushchev argued that his opponents were an "anti-party group". He was backed by Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov, who gave a forceful speech, and was reaffirmed in his position as First Secretary.
During the stormy meeting of the Central Committee, Zhukov had come close to threatening Kurshchev's opponents with force (even as he denounced them for having the blood of Stalin's victims on their hands) but the triumphant Krushchev desisted from killings nor show trials.
Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov - the only four names made public - were vilified in the press and deposed from their positions in party and government. They were some of them being given relatively unimportant positions...
WI Khrushchev was defeated and in the Central Commitee and was deposed in 1957? How is this affects History? Any thoughts?