Gework Alichanow
Gework Sarkissowitsch Alichanow ( Russian Геворк Саркисович Алиханов ; actually Gevorg Alikhanian , Armenian Գեւորգ Ալիխանյան * 1897 in Tbilisi ; † 13. February 1938 in Kommunarka in Moscow ) was a functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and stepfather of Yelena Bonner .
From December 1920 to April 1921 he was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia . Later he was a member of the Executive Committee and head of the Balkans Department of the Communist International ( Comintern ).
On May 26, 1937, he was arrested in the course of the Great Terror , sentenced to death on February 13, 1938 and shot on the same day in Kommunarka near Moscow. The date of death 11 November 1939, which was initially communicated to the family, as well as the cause of death pneumonia later turned out to be incorrect.
In 1954, Alichanov was rehabilitated .
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrei Sakharov : Memories . Vol. 1. Moscow, 1996. p. 489. S. a. Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)
literature
- Nanci Adler: The Gulag survivor. Beyond the Soviet system . Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick et al. 2001, ISBN 0-7658-0071-3 .
- William J. Chase: Enemies within the gates? The Comintern and the Stalinist repression. 1934-1939 . Yale University Press, New Haven CT 2001, ISBN 0-300-08242-8 , ( Annals of communism ).
- Martin Schaad: The fabulous confessions of Comrade Alfred Kurella: a biographical search for traces . Hamburg: Hamburger Ed. 2014, short biography p. 163
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SURNAME | Alichanow, Gework |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Алиханов, Геворк Саркисович (Cyrillic); Ալիխանյան, Գևորգ (Armenian); Alichanjan, Gework (maiden name); Alichanow, Gework Sarkissowitsch |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Functionary of the CPSU and stepfather of Jelena Bonner |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1897 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi |
DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1938 |
Place of death | Kommunarka near Moscow |