Alexander Vasilyevich Kosarev

Alexander Wassiljewitsch Kosarew ( Russian Александр Васильевич Косарев ; born November 1, 1903 in Moscow , † February 23, 1939 ibid) was a Soviet party official.

Life

Kosarev joined the Red Army at a young age and fought in the civil war. From 1929 to 1938 he was chairman of the Komsomol , and in 1933 he received the Order of Lenin . In the course of the Stalin Purges he was removed from his post and arrested at the end of 1938. On February 23, 1939, he was shot in Lefortovo Prison .

Fonts

• Youth of freedom, youth of slavery
• Work productively, live culturally
• About the transformation of the work of the Komsomol
• The conversion of the work of the communist youth association
• The young patriots of the Soviet country
• The youth can and must keep peace
• The Stalin Constitution and the Soviet Youth

literature

• Peter Kaiser: The Chessboard of Power: The Scope of Action of a Soviet Functionary under Stalin using the example of the Secretary General of the Komsomol Aleksandr Kosarev (1929-1938). Ibidem 2017, ISBN 9783838210520 .
• Peter Kaiser: Between conformity, submission and obstinacy. Aleksandr Kosarev, the Komsomol and the “Great Terror” (1936–1939) / Between Conformity, Subjugation and Obstinacy: Aleksandr Kosarev, the Komsomol and the “Great Terror” (1936–1939) . In: Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe 67 (2019), 2, pp. 239–268.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alexander Wassiljewitsch Kosarew in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kosarev, Aleksandr Vasilevich