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Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich [a] ( Russian: Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович; 22 November [ O.S. 10 November] 1893 – 25 July 1991), was a Soviet politician and administrator, and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin. He was one of several associates who helped Stalin to seize power.
- He was a shoemaker from a poor Jewish family. Lazar Kaganovich had the ideal biography for a Bolshevik: he came from the very bottom of society and achieved everything himself.
- The revolution propelled him to the head of a republic. In 1917, Kaganovich was 23 and was heavily involved in revolutionary activity, setting up Bolshevik cells in Ukraine and Belarus.
- In charge of collectivization. That same year (1928), Stalin put Kaganovich in charge of another important task, that of strengthening collective and state farms, and putting an end to kulaks, wealthy peasants who had unearned income and themselves employed hired labor.
- He was the country's main railway manager. In 1934, Stalin appointed Kaganovich as People's Commissar (i.e. minister) of Railways. Now his task was to sort out the transport sector, which was in a state of chaos, with frequent railway accidents.
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Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich ( Russian: Ла́зарь Моисе́евич Кагано́вич) (November 22, 1893 - July 25, 1991) was a Soviet politician and administrator and a close associate of Joseph Stalin. Kaganovich was one of Stalin's most loyal associates, who rose to become a member of the ...
Jul 27, 1991 · Lazar Moyseyevich Kaganovich, one of Stalin's closest aides and the last surviving Bolshevik leader who joined the Communist Party before the Revolution, died here on Thursday. He was 97 years...
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KAGANOVICH, LAZAR MOYSEYEVICH. (1893 – 1991), Stalinist; deputy prime minister of the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1957. Known for his viciousness, Lazar Kaganovich was a staunch Stalinist and a ruthless participant in the purges of the 1930s.
KAGANOVICH, LAZAR MOISEYEVICH (1893–1991), Soviet politician. Born in Kiev province, Kaganovich joined the Communist Party in 1911 and became a member of the Kiev committee of the party in 1914.