Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav
| Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav Доржжавын Лувсаншарав |
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| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Party | |
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In office June 30, 1933 – October 5, 1934 |
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| Preceded by | Jambyn Lkhümbe |
| Succeeded by | Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj |
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| Born | 1900 Ikh-Uul, Khövsgöl, Mongolia |
| Died | July 30, 1941 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Mongolian |
| Political party | Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party |
Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav (Mongolian: Доржжавын Лувсаншарав; 1900 – July 30, 1941) was Secretary of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) from 1932 to 1937 and served as Chief Secretary from 1933 to 1934. A central figure during the violent Stalinist repressions in Mongolia, Luvsansharav presided over arrests, torture, and executions of over 25,000 “enemies of the revolution” between 1937 and 1939 and was instrumental in the violent purges of Prime Ministers Peljidiin Genden and Anandyn Amar. He ultimately fell victim to the purges himself, arrested in 1939 on charges of counterrevolution and executed in Moscow in 1941.
Luvsansharav was born in 1900 in Zasagt Khan Province (present day Ikh-Uul) district of Khövsgöl Province. At the age of 10 he was sent to Möröngiin Khuree monastery to become a lama, but fled in 1921. He joined the MPRP in 1925, first heading up a local MPRP cell and then attending the Party school in Ulaanbaatar in 1927 where he made a name for himself combating rightists in the student body. After attending the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow from 1928 to 1929, he returned to take up leadership of the MPRP in Khan-Taishir-Uul province (present day Zavkhan Province).
One of several “new leftists” promoted during the Eight Party Congress in 1930, Luvsansharav first headed a department at the Presidium of the MPRP Central Committee and then became a member of the presidium and deputy secretary of the Central Committee before being elected one of three secretaries of Central Committee in June 1932 (a position he would hold until 1937). From June 30, 1933 to October 5, 1934 he served as First Secretary of the Central Committee.
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