Dmitri Stepanowitsch Polyansky
Dmitry Polyansky ( Russian Дмитрий Степанович Полянский ; born October 25 . Jul / 7 November 1917 greg. In Slovianoserbsk , Ukrainian People's Republic , † 8. October 2001 in Moscow , Russia ) was a Soviet politician .
Life
Polyansky became a member of the WKP (B) in 1939 and a member of the Komsomol of Kharkov . There he attended the agricultural college and from 1940 the party college of the CPSU in Moscow . From 1945 to 1949 he worked in a responsible position in the cadre department (personnel matters and instructor) of the central committee of the party. He continued his party career as a young “ apparatchik ”: from 1949 to 1952 he was Second Oblast Secretary of the Crimea, from 1952 to 1953 President of the Oblispolkom of Crimea, from 1953 to 1955 first Obkom secretary of Crimea, from 1955 to 1957 First Observer Secretary of Chkalov (Orenburg) and 1957-1958 first Krajkomsekretär of Krasnodar .
This was followed by his rapid ascent into the power centers of the party and government: in 1956 he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. From 1958 to 1962 he was chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (successor: Voronov ). From November 1962 he was Deputy Prime Minister (Agriculture) member of the Government of the USSR in the Khrushchev Cabinet and from 1965 as First Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet of Kosygin .
From 1958 to 1960 Polyansky was a candidate and from May 4, 1960 to March 4, 1976 full member in the highest political body of the USSR, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1952-1966 Presidium). In 1960, at the age of 42, he was the youngest member of the Politburo. His rise is similar to that of Podgornys : in 1957 he too had an active role in the fight against Khrushchev's Stalinist enemies, and he too was criticized by Khrushchev from 1961 onwards. Alongside Brezhnev and Suslov , he actively promoted the overthrow of Khrushchev as first secretary of the party in 1964 through his criticism of the unsuccessful agricultural policy.
At the 25th party congress of the CPSU in March 1976, Poljanski, who had been cautious in recent years, lost his post as a Politburo member and on March 16, 1976, as Minister of Agriculture (successor Valentin K. Mesjats) - also due to the poor harvest in 1975.
literature
- Spuler: Regents and governments of the world (Minister-Ploetz; Vol. 4 and 5). 1964 and 1972, ISBN 3-87640-026-0
- Merle Fainsod : How Russia is governed ; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1965
- Michel Tatu: Power and Powerlessness in the Kremlin ; Ullstein, 1967
- Christian Schmidt-Häuer: The old guard stays among themselves , in: Die Zeit , No. 12/1976 of March 12, 1976
- Dimitrij Poljanskij , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 31/1987 of July 20, 1987, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Article Dmitri Stepanowitsch Polyanski in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Polyansky, Dmitri Stepanowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Полянский, Дмитрий Степанович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Slovianoserbsk , Ukrainian People's Republic |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 2001 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russia |