1924–57: Full member, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th Central Committee
Other offices held
1955–1956: Chairman of State Committee on Labor and Salary
1948–1952: Chairman of State Committee on Materiel-Technical Supply for National Economy
1944–47 & 1956–57: Minister of Construction Materials Industry
1941: Chairman of Council on Evacuation
1939–40:People's Commissar of Oil Industry
1939: People's Commissar of Fuel Industry
1937–39: People's Commissar of Heavy Industry
1935–37,1938–42 & 1943–44: People's Commissar for Transport
1931–1934: First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moscow
1930–1935: First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moscow Oblast
1925–28 & 1947: First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine
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.
Born to Jewish parents in 1893, Kaganovich worked as a shoemaker and became a member of the Bolsheviks, joining the party around 1911. As an organizer, Kaganovich was active in Yuzovka, Saratov and Belarus throughout the 1910s, and led a revolt in Belarus during the 1917 October Revolution. In the early 1920s, he helped consolidate Soviet rule in Turkestan. In 1922, Stalin placed Kaganovich in charge of organizational work within the Communist Party, through which he helped Stalin consolidate his grip of the party bureaucracy. Kaganovich rose quickly through the ranks, becoming a full member of the Central Committee in 1924, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1925, and Secretary of the Central Committee as well as a member of the Politburo in 1930. From the mid-1930s onwards, Kaganovich served as people's commissar for Railways, Heavy Industry and Oil Industry.
During the Second World War, Kaganovich was commissar of the North Caucasian and Transcaucasian Fronts. After the war, apart from serving in various industrial posts, Kaganovich was also made deputy head of the Soviet government. After Stalin's death in 1953 he quickly lost influence. Following an unsuccessful coup attempt against Nikita Khrushchev in 1957, Kaganovich was forced to retire from the Presidium and the Central Committee. In 1961 he was expelled from the party, and lived out his life as a pensioner in Moscow. At his death in 1991, he was the last surviving Old Bolshevik.[1] The Soviet Union itself outlasted him by only five months, dissolving on 26 December 1991.
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^Garthoff, Raymond L. (1994). The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. p. 461, n30. ISBN 0-8157-3060-8.
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