biography
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Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseyevich
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pronunciation:
[kaganohvich]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1991)
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| biography:
| Russian politician, born near Kiev, Ukraine. He joined the Communist Party in 1911, and after the Revolution became secretary of the Ukrainian Central Committee. In 1928 he became Party secretary in Moscow, and during the 1930s played a prominent role in the forced collectivization programme. He also served as commissar for railways, and was made a deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1947. He opposed Khrushchev's de-Stalinization and attempted to depose him, but failed, and was himself dismissed from the Party in 1957. |
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