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  2. 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 in ...

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    Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was born in 1893 in the hamlet of Kabany (now: Dibrova, Ukraine) into the family of a small Jewish cattle trader. He was a Soviet politician, member of the highest state and party authorities of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour. One of Stalin's closest associates.

    • He Was A Shoemaker from A Poor Jewish Family
    • The Revolution Propelled Him to The Head of A Republic
    • In Charge of Collectivization
    • He Was The Country's Main Railway Manager
    • He Was Nicknamed "Destroyer of Moscow"
    • He Built The Moscow Metro
    • He Was at The Forefront of Reprisals and Fight Against 'Saboteurs'
    • He Was One of Stalin's Most Loyal Comrades
    • He Promoted Khrushchev and Then Was Deposed by Him
    • He Spent The Last 30 Years of His Life in Obscurity

    Lazar Kaganovich had the ideal biography for a Bolshevik: he came from the very bottom of society and achieved everything himself. He was born into a Jewish family in a village not far from Kiev. The family had many children, and they lived in abject poverty. From the age of 14, Lazar worked in factories, as a loader and shoemaker. Jews in the Russ...

    In 1917, Kaganovich was 23 and was heavily involved in revolutionary activity, setting up Bolshevik cells in Ukraine and Belarus. He had such an influence on Party work in the provinces that he was soon put on the list of delegates for the Congress of Soviets in Petrograd. There he met Lenin. Kaganovich recalledthat when he was addressing a congres...

    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. In 1932, a campaign was launched to increase the amount of grain collected for the state stockpile. Peasants w...

    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. Kaganovich was once again true to his tough reputation, introducing personal responsibility – and reprisals - for each accident. But he managed to ...

    In addition to working in the People's Commissariat of Railways, Kaganovich also headed the Party's Moscow branch. In 1935, Stalin approved a general plan for the reconstruction of Moscow and appointed Kaganovich in charge of its implementation. With the number of residents and cars steadily on the rise, Moscow needed to have its roads widened and ...

    Among other things, the general plan for the reconstruction of Moscow envisaged the construction of the metro. A reporter for the newspaper, Vechernyaya Moskva [Evening Moscow], A. V. Khrabrovitsky, saidthat Kaganovich had visited Berlin to see how the metro had been built there, and upon his return, he allegedly told Stalin: “In Berlin, entrances ...

    Kaganovich was a diehard communist and Stalinist, and sincerely believed that repression was necessary for maintaining order and achieving results. At a senior Party meeting in 1937, Kaganovich delivered an extensive speechin which he spoke about the importance of combating "saboteurs". According to him, "Japanese-German-Trotskyist agents" and spie...

    Without a formal education, Kaganovich became one of the country's most senior officials. Contemporaries said that he was quite well-read but at the same time he made many grammar and spelling mistakes in writing. But Stalin valued his other qualities: diligence, thrift and loyalty. “Having reread my letter, I see that I did not fulfil your instruc...

    In the final years of Stalin's life, Kaganovich no longer counted among his favorites. That eminent place was instead occupied by the Khrushchev-Malenkov-Beria troika. Yet, it was thanks to Kaganovich and his patronage that Khrushchev owed his career. Lazar orignally recruited him, a simple worker from Ukraine, to supervise the construction of the ...

    In 1961, Kaganovich suffered two serious blows: he was expelled from the Party, and his wife died. During the Thaw, when Stalin's crimes became public knowledge, everyone turned their backs on Kaganovich. There were even rumorsthat when he was lying in hospital medical staff refused to give him proper care. A former people's commissar and a close a...

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

  6. Known for his viciousness, Lazar Kaganovich was a staunch Stalinist and a ruthless participant in the purges of the 1930s. Born near Kiev, Ukraine, Kaganovich became active in the Social Democratic Party from 1911 and served as the first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1925 to 1928.

  7. 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.

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