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After whose death was Kosygin appointed chair of the State Planning Committee?

  • Leonid Brezhnev

  • Nikita Khrushchev

  • Alexei Kosygin

  • Joseph Stalin

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After Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev became the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1957, Khrushchev appointed Kosygin as chair of the State Planning Committee, the main economic planning body of the Soviet Union.
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