Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov

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Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov

Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov ( Russian Анатолий Иванович Лукьянов ; born May 7, 1930 in Smolensk ; † January 9, 2019 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician .

Political career

Mikhail Gorbachev promoted Lukyanov's rise to the center of power. From April 23, 1985 to 1988 he was head of department and from July 1987 secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU , and he headed the general department - i.e. the cadre department - of the Central Committee . From 1988 to 1990 he was First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet , that is, Deputy of Gorbachev in the office of Head of State. At the same time, he was also a candidate for the Politburo from September 30, 1988 to July 14, 1990 , i.e. a candidate in the highest political body of the CPSU. After the new office of President of the Soviet Union was established and Gorbachev took over this office, Lukyanov was then chairman of the Supreme Soviet from March 15, 1990 to August 28, 1991 . Until the beginning of 1991 he supported the political course taken by Gorbachev of the concepts of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) for party and state. It was not until the session of the Supreme Soviet under the leadership of Lukyanov on June 17, 1991 that he and Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov tried unsuccessfully to weaken Gorbachev's position.

The August coup

Together with Defense Minister Marshal Dmitri Yasov , Interior Minister Boris Pugo , Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov , Vice-President Gennady Janayev and Central Committee Secretaries Valery Boldin , Oleg Schenin and Oleg Baklanov , Lukyanov was one of the initiators of the August 19th against Gorbat August 1991 the Soviet news agency TASS reported an alleged illness to Mikhail Gorbachev and that Janajew had taken over the official business. The attempt by the coup plotters to get Gorbachev to resign failed. After three days the coup was over, in which Boris Yeltsin in particular emerged as the main figure of the resistance. As a result of the conspiracy, Gorbachev's power waned, the CPSU was banned from the RSFSR , and in late 1991 the collapse of the Soviet Union was sealed. Lukyanov admitted later: "This adventure was a conspiracy and an absolutely illegal act ... I have constantly pointed out the illegality of the act of the coup." He and his Mitputschisten were sentenced to prison terms, 1,993 were performed adhesion Verschonungen and amnesties .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Умер последний глава Верховного Совета СССР Анатолий Лукьянов tass.ru, accessed on January 9, 2019
  2. ↑ Michail Gorbatschow: Memories , p. 1090.Settler, Berlin 1995
personal data
SURNAME Lukyanov, Anatoly Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лукьянов, Анатолий Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Smolensk
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2019
Place of death Moscow