Jakow Arkadjewitsch Jakowlew

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Yakov Arkadievich Yakovlev ( Russian Яков Аркадьевич Яковлев ; born June 9 . Jul / 21st June  1896 greg. In Grodno ; † 29. July 1938 , original surname Epstein ) was a Soviet party functionary.

Yakovlev joined the Bolsheviks in 1913 . From 1929 he was the People's Commissar for Agriculture, responsible for forced collectivization . In 1936 he appeared as a witness in the first Moscow trial . In 1937 he organized the Great Terror for Stalin in Belarus, the following year he fell victim to himself.

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  1. Questioning of the witness Jakowlew ( memento of the original of April 29, 2009 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. , August 20, 1936 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stalinwerke.de