KAGANOVICH, LAZAR MOISEYEVICH

ləzärˈ mōĭsyāˈyəvich kəgənōˈvich, 1893–1991, Soviet Communist leader. A Jewish shoemaker and labor organizer, he joined the Communist party in 1911. A capable administrator, he rose quickly through the party ranks after the revolution, and by 1930 he had become Moscow party secretary-general and a member of the Politburo. He was an influential proponent of forced collectivization and played a role in the purges of 1936–38. He became commissar for transportation (1935) and after the purges was responsible for heavy industrial policy in the Soviet Union. In 1957, he joined in an unsuccessful attempt to oust Khrushchev and was stripped of all his posts.

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The Grand Tactician: Khrushchev's Rise to Power
Book by Lazar Pistrak; Praeger, 1961
Subjects: Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich--1894-1971
...Khrushchevs visiting the station, and after each visit we worked better, wrote one of the engineers. "May I tell Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich "--Comrade Khrushchev asked us all the time--"that the station will be finished according to schedule...
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Everyman's Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia
Book by S. V. Utechin; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
...movement q.v. originated in nearby Irmino in 1935. Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseyevich b. 1893 , Communist of Jewish origin who began...headed the party organization in the Ukraine. Kaganovich was one of Stalins chief lieutenants, but his...
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Who's Who in Jewish History: After the Period of the Old Testament
Book by Joan Comay; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Jews--Biography, Jews--Encyclopedias
...coherent meaning in life and took refuge in existentialism and the cult of the absurd. KAGANOVICH, Lazar Moiseyevich b. 1893. Soviet politician. Kaganovich, born in Kiev, came from a working-class family. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1911...
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union
Book by Michael T. Florinsky; McGraw-Hill, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Encyclopedias
...Author of Principles of the Theory of Surfaces in Tensor Representation 1947- 48 . Stalin prize 1943 . KAGANOVICH, Lazar Moiseyevich 1893- , party and government official, born in Kiev Province of Jewish parents. In 1911, he joined the...
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The Soviet Union, 1933-1939
Book; U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1952
Subjects: Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union
...New York, N. Y. KAGAN, Samuyl Bentsyanovich, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in the United Kingdom. KAGANOVICH, Lazar Moiseyevich, holder of many Government and Party offices, especially Peoples Commissar for Transportation railways of...
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Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseyevich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KAGANOVICH, LAZAR MOISEYEVICH l zar moisya y vich k g no vich, 1893 1991, Soviet Communist leader. A Jewish shoemaker and labor organizer, he joined the...


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