Portraying those jockeying for position in a post-Stalin Soviet Union are: Steve Buscemi («Norman: The
Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall
of a New York Fixer») as former Moscow Party Chairman Nikita Khrushchev; Simon Russell Beale («The Legend
of Tarzan») as Lavrenti Beria, Stalin's stern Chief
of Police; Michael Palin («Fierce Creatures») as Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov; Jason Isaacs («The Infiltrator») as Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov, and Jeffrey Tambor («The Accountant») who tackles the
role of Stalin's neurotic deputy
leader, Georgy Malenkov (in case you're wondering, The Death
of Stalin was made before the allegations
of sexual misconduct arose for Tambor).