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Yakov Saulovich Agranov (Russian: Я́ков Сау́лович Агра́нов; born Yankel Samuilovich Sorenson; 12 October 1893 – 1 August 1938) was the first chief of the Soviet Main Directorate of State Security and a deputy of NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda.
Agranov was Genrikh Yagoda's deputy during Stalin's Great Purge. In 1921 Agranov was the chief investigator regarding the “Petrograd militant organization”, headed by Professor Tagantsev. The investigation ended with more than 85 persons being sentenced to death, including the poet Nikolay Gumilyov.
May 7, 2009 · This essay revisits aspects of the ‘Lenin–Chayanov debate’ which was so prominent in the formative period of The Journal of Peasant Studies: to distinguish some of its various strands, to identify some of its tensions and ambiguities, and to reflect on the legacies of Lenin and Chayanov.
- Henry Bernstein
- 2009
Yakov Saulovich Agranov - a prominent member of the Cheka, the forerunner of the Soviet KGB. He was born in a Jewish shopkeeper's family in Checherskaya, a village in the Gomel province of the...
Among the security officers that manufactured the case was Yakov Agranov, who later became one of the chief organizers of Stalinist show trials and the Great Purge in the 1930s. The case was officially declared fabricated and its victims rehabilitated by Russian authorities in 1992.
Yakov Agranov, as temporary head Of the Leningrad NKVD, quickly . established a connection between Nikolayev and the men who had been the leading figures in the Leningrad Komsomol during ZINOVIEV ascendancy in the City. The most prominent was I. 1. KOTOLNYOV*, former member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. He had, in fact,
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Yakov Saulovich Agranov (Russian: Я́ков Сау́лович Агра́нов; born Yankel Samuilovich Sorenson; 1893–1938) was the first chief of Soviet Main Directorate of State Security and a deputy of NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda.
