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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 one of Joseph Stalin 's closest associates. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, Kaganovich worked as a shoemaker and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ...
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was a Soviet Communist Party leader and supporter of Joseph Stalin. As a young Jewish shoemaker, Kaganovich became involved in the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party (in 1911) and in 1920 was made head of the Soviet government of Tashkent.
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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 Politburo and the Presidium of the CPSU.
In 1925 Stalin appointed Kaganovich as general secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party. This was his first major assignment and a sign of the high regard in which he was held. The appointment was part of the shuffling of personnel in the struggle for succession following Lenin’s death.
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...
Aug 2, 1991 · Lazar Moyseyevich Kaganovich made it to old age by out-Stalinizing Stalin: If the boss was worried about peasants in Ukraine keeping some of their grain instead of giving it all to the...
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.
