Lazar Kaganovich
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Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (born 22nd November 1893) is a Soviet Ukrainian politician, administrator and associate of Joseph Stalin. He is currently a member of the Tyumen government, a remnant of Stalin's Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Background
Early Life
Lazar Kaganovich was born on November 22, 1893 in Kabany village during the times of the late Russian Empire. Not much is known during the period of his youth, but it was known when he was at the age of 13, he joined the workforce, which would then shape his political and economic viewpoints. In 1911, he joined the Bolsheviks, which would then mark the beginning of his career as as one of them.
Military and political career
While not much of a military leader, he participated as a leader of several Bolshevik revolts in the Russian Empire during the October Revolution, as well as being commissar for the Red Army propaganda department. From May 1918 to August 1919. he was chairman of the Ispolkom (Committee) of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. In 1919–1920, he served as governor of the Voronezh Governorate. The years 1920 to 1922 he spent in Turkmenistan as one of the leaders of the Bolshevik struggle against the local Muslim rebels (Basmachi), and also commanded the successful punitive expeditions against local opposition.
Power struggle and World War II
Onward from the 1920s, when Bolshevik power was consolidated over the entirety of Russia, he stood by the side of his mentor, Joseph Stalin in a power struggle against Nikolai Bukharin. Little did his side know what would happen next, and what damaging effect would it have on Russia.
During the final stages of the power struggle, Stalin and his faction lost to Nikolai Bukharin. When the German war machine of the Wehrmacht managed to shatter the USSR during the Second World War, Kaganovich followed Stalin to West Siberia where he established a remnant government of the Soviet Union in Tyumen.
West Russian War
In 1956, Stalin's successor Sergei Kirov appointed Kaganovich Head of the Gosplan Committee to oversee the second Five-Year Plan (1957-1961). In 1960, as Tyumen's control over Western Siberia declined and the industrialisation goals weren't met, Kaganovich was demoted to a minor ministerial position with Maksim Saburov taking his post as Head of the Gosplan Committee.
History
Lazar Kaganovich is regarded in real life as the last Old Bolshevik, dying five months before the USSR's official dissolution.