Statement of the Kaganovich Family
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The Statement of the Kaganovich Family was a letter penned by relatives of Lazar Kaganovich in response to a book written by American journalist Stuart Kahan, The Wolf of the Kremlin: The First Biography of L.M. Kaganovich, the Soviet Union's Architect of Fear (William Morrow & Co, October 1987). In the book, Kahan made a series of claims about Kaganovich's working relationship with Joseph Stalin and his activities during the Ukrainian famine. He also claimed to be the long-lost nephew of Kaganovich. The statement disputed all of these claims and provided evidence that brought into question a number of Kahan's factual assertions.
The statement was written after The Wolf of the Kremlin was translated into the Russian language by Progress Publishers, and a chapter from it printed in the Nedelya (Week) newspaper in 1991.
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