Kosygin, Aleksei Nikolaievich
Kosygin, Aleksei Nikolaievich (1904–80) Soviet statesman, premier (1964–80). He was elected to the Communist Party Central Committee in 1939 and the Politburo in 1948. Kosygin served as an economics adviser to Joseph Stalin. Removed on the accession of Nikita Khrushchev, Kosygin returned to share power with Leonid Brezhnev.
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