Gennady Ivanovich Voronov

Gennady Voronov ( Russian Геннадий Иванович Воронов * August 18 ^jul. / 31 August  1910 ^greg. In Rameschki , Tver province , Russian Empire ; † 1. April 1994 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician and longstanding member of the Politburo of the CPSU .

Life

Education and advancement

Voronov, who studied engineering, became a member of the WKP (B) in 1931 and was observer secretary from 1939 to 1948 and then second secretary (area secretary) and from 1948 to first observer secretary of Chita Oblast .

This was followed by his ascent into the party's centers of power: in 1952 he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU . From 1955 to 1957 he was Deputy Minister for Agriculture of the Soviet Union and from 1957 to 1961 First Secretary of the Orenburg Obkom . In 1961 he became First Deputy Chairman of the Office of the Central Committee of the Party Organization in the RSFSR and at the same time a candidate for the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU .

At the center of power

From October 31, 1961 to April 27, 1973 he was finally a full member of the highest political body of the USSR, the Politburo (1952–1966 Presidium) of the CPSU. As a younger “young hope ”, he replaced the Politburo member Aristov and “cleaned up” the leadership levels in the party of “too old” functionaries. He was still considered an expert in agriculture and supported Khrushchev . But like Brezhnev , he followed the policy of de-Stalinization rather in silence. After Khrushchev's disempowerment (1964), in which he was not involved, he supported heavy industry. In the hierarchy of the powerful twelve Politburo members, he was in the middle.

1961/62 he was first secretary of the office of the Central Committee for the Affairs of the RSFSR and from 1962 to 1971 chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR.

literature

• Michel Tatu: Power and Powerlessness in the Kremlin, Ullstein-Verlag, 1968, 560 pages.
• Merle Fainsod : How Russia is governed. Kiepenheuer-Verlag, 1965, 747 pages.