Pavel Postyshev
Pavel Petrovich Postyshev (Russian: Па́вел Петро́вич По́стышев; 18 September [O.S. 6 September] 1887 – 26 February 1939) was a Soviet politician, state and Communist Party official and party publicist. He was a member of Joseph Stalin's inner circle, before falling victim to the Great Purge. In 2010, a court in Kyiv judged Postyshev guilty of complicity in genocide because of his part in causing the mass starvation in Ukraine in the early 1930s, known as the Holodomor.
Pavel Postyshev | |
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Павел Постышев | |
Postyshev in 1935 | |
| First Secretary of the Kyiv Regional Committee (previously of Kyiv Gubernatorial Committee and Kyiv District Committee) of the Communist Party of Ukraine | |
| In office 10 June 1934 – 16 January 1937 | |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Demchenko |
| Succeeded by | Sergey Kudryavtsev |
| In office 13 November 1924 – November 1926 | |
| Preceded by | Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili |
| Succeeded by | Fyodor Kornyushin |
| Head of the Organizational-Instruction Department of the Central Committee | |
| In office 1932 – January 1933 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph Meerzon |
| Succeeded by | Vladimir Polonsky |
| Candidate member of the 17th Politburo | |
| In office 10 February 1934 – 14 January 1938 | |
| Full member of the 17th Secretariat | |
| In office 13 July 1930 – 10 February 1934 | |
| Full member of the 16th Orgburo | |
| In office 13 July 1930 – 10 February 1934 | |
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| Born | Pavel Petrovich Postyshev 18 September [O.S. 6 September] 1887 Ivanovo, Russian Empire |
| Died | 26 February 1939 (aged 51) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1938) Communist Party of Ukraine |
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