Andrey Andreyev (politician)
| Andrey Andreyev Андрей Андреев | |
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Andreyev in 1924 | |
| Chairman of the Party Control Commission of the Central Committee | |
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In office 19 March 1939 – 5 October 1952 | |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Yezhov |
| Succeeded by | Matvei Shkiryatov |
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In office 1930–1931 | |
| Preceded by | Grigol Ordzhonikidze |
| Succeeded by | Jānis Rudzutaks |
| People's Commissar for Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate | |
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In office 22 November 1930 – 9 October 1931 | |
| Preceded by | Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze |
| Succeeded by | Jānis Rudzutaks |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
30 October 1895 Kuznetsovo, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died |
5 December 1971 (aged 76) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Soviet |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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Central institution membership
Other offices held
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Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (Russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Андре́ев; 30 October 1895 – 5 December 1971) was a Soviet politician.
He was the son of a peasant who became a munitions worker. During World War I he joined the Bolsheviks.[1] His wife was Dora Khazan.
He was a member of the Politburo from 1932 until 1952. Andreyev was a Chairman of the Soviet of the Union from 1938 until 1946 and later directed the party's Control Commission (until 1952). In 1949 he was briefly People's Commissar for Agriculture.[2] This was also the year of the Leningrad case for which Andreyev built up a case against Nikolai Voznesensky, accusing him of losing 526 documents from Gosplan.[3]
Dismissed from Politburo during 1952 when he was completely deaf,[4] he remained a vice-premier of the Soviet government but ultimately lost his positions during 1953 after the Central Committee Plenary Meeting (convened immediately after Lavrentiy Beria's dismissal) where he blamed Beria in criticizing Stalin (in other words, declared his disapproval of the party policy towards "destalinization").
When Andreyev died neither Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the CPSU, or Alexei Kosygin, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers bothered to attend his funeral.[5] He loved the music of Tchaikovsky, mountaineering and nature photography.[6]
Honours and awards
Andreyev was awarded four Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution and other awards.
He sponsored the construction of the AA-20 locomotive, which was named after him as a result.
References
- ↑ Stalin's Hammer
- ↑ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, page 533
- ↑ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, page 529
- ↑ Stalin - Speech at the CC of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- ↑ Mawdsley, Evan; White, Stephen (2000). The Soviet elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: the Central Committee and its members, 1917–1991. Oxford University Press. p. 145. ISBN 0-19-829738-6.
- ↑ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, page 224
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