Lazar Kaganovich
Also known as L.M. Kaganovich, Lazaŕ Moiseevich Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich
Soviet politician (1893–1991)
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Lazar Kaganovich was a high-ranking Soviet politician and Communist Party official who served in various leadership positions under Joseph Stalin from the 1920s through the 1950s. He is historically significant as one of Stalin's most trusted lieutenants and for his role in implementing major Soviet policies, including industrialization and agricultural collectivization, before falling from power during Nikita Khrushchev's era.
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- Stalin and the Katyn Massacre — Self (archive footage)2020
- Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым — Self (archive footage)2016
- All-Union Physical Culture Parade — Self1945
- Honour — Self (documental footage)1938
- Soviets on Parade — Self1933
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Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (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 1911. During and after the 1917 October Revolution, he held leading positions in Bolshevik organizations in Belarus and Russia, and helped consolidate Soviet rule in Turkestan. In 1922, Stalin placed Kaganovich in charge of an organizational department of the Communist Party, assisting the former in consolidating his grip on the party. Kaganovich was appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1925, and a full member of the Politburo and Stalin's deputy party secretary in 1930. In 1932–33, he helped enforce grain quotas in Ukraine which contributed to the Holodomor famine. From the mid-1930s on, Kaganovich variously served as the People's Commissar for Railways, Heavy Industry and Oil Industry. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he was appointed a member of the State Defence Committee.
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