power struggle with the Soviet Communist Party leader Nikita Khrushchev in February 1955, Aleksandrov was fired on 10 March 1955. Nikolai Mikhailov succeeded him as minister of culture. Aleksandrov was sent to Minsk where he was put in charge of the section of dialectical and historical materialism of the Institute of Philosophy and Law at Belarus Academy of Sciences. He spent the rest of his life working on sociology and its history. He died in Moscow in 1961 at age 53. Notes References K.A. Zalessky. Imperiya Stalina: Biograficheskij entsiklopedicheskij slovar, Moscow, Veche, 2000. 1908 births 1961 deaths Politicians from Saint Petersburg People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union candidate members Culture ministers of the Soviet Union Second convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Fourth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities Head of Propaganda Department of CPSU CC Moscow State University alumni Institute of Red Professors alumni Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery