Nikolai Grigoryevich Ignatov
Nikolai Grigoryevich Ignatov ( Russian Николай Григорьевич Игнатов ; May 3 jul. / 16th May 1901 greg. On the Staniza Tischanskaja at Urjupinsk , Russian Empire (now Volgograd Oblast , Russia ); † 14. November 1966 in Moscow ) was a Soviet Politician.
biography
Ascent
Ignatov was the son of a worker and had worked as a carpenter in his youth. During the civil war he fought in the Red Army . In 1924 he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Until 1932 he was an employee of the secret service, the Cheka and the OGPU. Then he successfully participated in a two-year course of the Central Committee (ZK) of the CPSU for Marxism-Leninism . His political career was very changeable and uncertain. In the years after 1934 he held the post of secretary of the party in Leningrad , from 1938 as first observer secretary in Kuibyshev , from 1940 in Oryol , from 1949 as first secretary of the Krasnodar region , from 1953 as first observer secretary in Voronezh and from 1955 to 1957 as first observer secretary in Gorky . From 1939 to 1941 he was only a candidate for the Central Committee of the CPSU and it was not until 1952 that he finally became a member of the Central Committee.
At the center of power
From October 16, 1952 to March 5, 1953 and from December 17, 1957 to May 4, 1960 Ignatov was the secretary of the CPSU Central Committee responsible for agricultural issues. From October 16, 1952 to March 15, 1953, as part of the expansion of the party's governing bodies by Josef Stalin, he was named a candidate for the Politburo (called the Presidium from 1952 to 1966). From 1956 to June 29, 1957 he was again a candidate for the Politburo. He was promoted by Nikita Khrushchev and supported him in 1957 in an attempt to overthrow him as First Secretary of the CPSU. In 1957 he was promoted to the highest political body in the USSR , he became a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from June 29, 1957 to October 31, 1961. He supported Khrushchev's course in the de-Stalinization of the CPSU (1959: demand for Molotov , Kaganowitsch and Malenkow to be excluded from the party ). By 1960, however, his decline from the center of power began again. Why Khrushchev could not or would not hold his loyal helper against Leonid Brezhnev and other party leaders is unclear. In 1959 he was for a few months and after 1962 again chairman of the only representative presidium of the Supreme Soviet (i.e. head of state) of the Russian SFSR (RSFSR) .
In the government of the USSR
Ignatov was Minister for Agricultural Procurement in the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 1952 to 1953 and then again in the cabinet of Khrushchev from 1958 to 1962 and Deputy Prime Minister from 1960 to 1962.
Honors
Ignatov received the Order of Hero of Socialist Labor . After his death, his urn was buried on the Kremlin wall in Moscow.
literature
- Bertold Spuler: Regents and Governments of the World , Minister-Ploetz Vol. 4 u. 5, 1964 and 1972, ISBN 3-87640-026-0
- Michel Tatu: Power and Powerlessness in the Kremlin. From Khrushchev to collective leadership , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1968
- Merle Fainsod : How Russia is governed , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1965
Web links
- Article Nikolai Grigoryevich Ignatov in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ignatov, Nikolai Grigoryevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Игнатов, Николай Григорьевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tishanskaya |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1966 |
| Place of death | Moscow |