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			InfoTrac Activities   Instructions: Enter your answers into the boxes below. If you'd like a print-out of your responses, click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page, and you will be taken to a printer-friendly page. If you have been instructed to submit your exercise online, enter both your and your instructor's name and e-mail address, then click the Email button at the bottom of the page. Your answers will be e-mailed immediately.   Lavrenti Beria Lavrenti Beria executed: December 23rd, 1953. (Months Past)(Biography) Richard Cavendish. History Today Dec 2003 v53 i12 p54(1) (715 words) 1. How did Beria rise up the power hierarchy in the Soviet Union? 2. What important positions did he hold? 3. Why was he feared by many high-ranking party officials? 4. How did Khruschev and Malenkov handle his removal, trial, and execution? 5. How does Beria’s career and fate illustrate the nature and distribution of political power in the Soviet Union through the mid-1950s?     Student Name:* Student Email:*   Professor Name:*   Professor Email:*         *required