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Lazar Kaganovich
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Image:Lazar Kaganovich.jpg thumb|right|140px|Lazar Kaganovich
'''Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich''' ({{lang-ru|ЛаÌ?зарь МоиÑ?еÌ?евич КаганоÌ?вич}}) (
November 22,
1893–
July 25,
1991) was a
Soviet Union Soviet politician and a close associate of
Joseph Stalin.
He was born in 1893 to Jewish parents in Kubany near
Kiev. Kaganovich never received a formal education, he was self taught and worked as a shoe repairman. In 1911 he joined the communist party, and in 1924 became a member of the
Central Committee.
In
1930, he became a member of the Soviet
Politburo, and during the
1930s he oversaw the construction of the first phase of the
Moscow Metro, which was named after Kaganovich until
1955. He also supervised the implementation of many of Stalin's
economics economic policies, including the
collectivization of
agriculture and rapid
industrialization.
According to
Robert Conquest and some modern Ukrainian historians of the period, Kaganovich, in league with
Vyacheslav Molotov, engineered the
1932-
1933 33 Ukraine Ukrainian famine or
Holodomor which was a planned genocide in which 7 to 10 million Ukrainians died and inflicted enormous suffering on the Soviet Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, Motivated by the goal of preventing the possible opposition that the relatively self-sufficient peasantry posed. On any analysis, Kaganovich, was one of the worst mass murderers in history. However, other academics in Soviet studies such as
Moshe Lewin,
Alexander Dallin and
Alec Nove dismiss the idea that the famine was a deliberate act.
Also Kaganovich organized and greatly contributed to the building of the first Soviet
metro system in
Moscow, which was named after him. At that time he also overseed the destruction of many of the city's oldest monuments[http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0312123817&id=k-PJkNFhCOcC&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=Kiev+1920+destruction&sig=3IF-tjY7VjrwN0ilRyi9toZhmrM].
In
1944, was launched the new light cruiser ''Lazar Kaganovich'' named after Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, of the project ''26-bis'', which entered the
Soviet Pacific Fleet in December 1944.
Image:Kaganovich cruiser.jpg thumb|left|250px|Light cruiser '''Lazar Kaganovich'''
Kaganovich was ethnically
Jewish by birth. For most of his life he was a staunch
atheism atheist. He was, until
1957, a full member of the
Politburo and the Presidium. Kaganovich was an early mentor of
Nikita Khrushchev, who first rose to prominence as his Moscow City deputy in the 1930s. In
1947, when Khrushchev was stripped of the Party leadership in Ukraine (he remained in the somewhat lesser head of government job), Stalin dispatched Kaganovich to replace him until the former was reinstated late that year.
Kaganovich was a rigid
Stalinism Stalinist, and though he remained in the Presidium, quickly lost influence after Stalin's death in March
1953. In
1957, along with fellow hard-line Stalinists
Vyacheslav Molotov,
Kliment Voroshilov, and
Georgy Malenkov (the so-called
Anti-Party Group), he participated in an abortive party coup against his former protege Khrushchev, who had over the preceding two years become increasingly harsh in his criticism of Stalin. As a result, Kaganovich was forced to retire from the Presidium and the Central Committee, and in
1964 he was expelled from the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union party.
Kaganovich survived to the age of 97, dying just before the events that led to the final unravelling of the Soviet Union in
1991.
Category:Soviet politicians Kaganovich, Lazar
Category:1893 births Kaganovich, Lazar
Category:1991 deaths Kaganovich, Lazar
Category:History of the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia Kaganovich, Lazar
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