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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.
According to official version invented by Agranov, the leaders of conspiracy included Tagantsev, Finnish spy German, and former colonel of Russian army Vycheslav Shvedov who acted under pseudonym "Vyacheslavsky" and shot two Chekists during his arrest.
The first chief of the GUGB was Yakov Agranov, Commissioner 1st rank of State Security and first deputy of People's Commissar of Internal Affairs.
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
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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...
