KIROV, SERGEI MIRONOVICH

syĭrgāˈ mērôˈnəvĭch kēˈrəf, 1888–1934, Russian Soviet leader. He fought in the civil war of 1918–20 and rose to power as one of Stalin's most trusted aides. A member of the Communist party Politburo from 1930, he was secretary of the party at Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) when he was assassinated, probably at Stalin's order. However, Stalin used Kirov's murder to institute the party purge and the treason trials of the late 1930s. Among those tried and executed for Kirov's murder were Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Rykov.

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Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1929-1941
Book by Robert C. Tucker; Norton, 1990
Subjects: Heads Of State--Soviet Union--Biography, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1917-1936, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1936-1953, Stalin, Joseph--1879-1953
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The Great Terror: A Reassessment
Book by Robert Conquest; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1936-1953, Stalin, Joseph--1879-1953, Terrorism--Soviet Union
...Central Committee even before the war; Sergei Kirov, appointed to head the Leningrad Party...the third-floor corridor on to which Sergei Kirovs office opened. He waited patiently outside. Kirov was at home preparing a report on the November...
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In Stalin's Shadow: The Career of "Sergo" Ordzhonikidze
Book by Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Donald J. Raleigh, Kathy S. Transchel, David J. Nordlander; M. E. Sharpe, 1995
Subjects: Ordzhonikidze, Sergo--1886-1937, Soviet Union--History--1925-1953, Stalin, Joseph--1879-1953
...members of Stalins Politburo--Sergei M. Kirov 1886-1934 and Grigorii K...Bolsheviks Fedor Raskolnikov, Sergei Kirov, and Sergo Ordzhonikidze at a...un-Marxist, and and-Leninist.--Ed. Sergei Kirov and Sergo Ordzhonikidze in the...
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Russia beyond Communism: A Chronicle of National Rebirth
Book by Vladislav Krasnov; Westview Press, 1991
Subjects: Nationalism--Soviet Union, Patriotism--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1985-1991
...Self-Government and Freedom in Russia , Sergei Pushkarev, with an Introduction by...Union: Reflections on the Millennium , Sergei Pushkarev, Vladimir Rusak, and Gleb...140 Sergei Zalygin, "On the Question of Immortality...
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The Stalinist Empire
Book by Ted Gottfried, Melanie Reim; Twenty-First Century Books, 2002
Subjects: Soviet Union--History--1925-1953--Juvenile Literature
...Comintern was a failure. On December 1, 1934, Sergei Mironovich Kirov, the Politburo member regarded as Stalins second...marked the purges that followed THE VICTIM Sergei Mironovich Kirov was born in 1886 in a small town in northern...
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Kirov, Sergei Mironovich
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KIROV, SERGEI MIRONOVICH syirga mero n vich ke r f, 1888 1934, Russian Soviet leader. He fought in the civil war of 1918 20 and rose to power as one...


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