Pavel Postyshev
| Pavel Postyshev Па́вел Петро́вич По́стышев |
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| First Secretary of the Kiev Regional Committee (previously of Kiev Gubernatorial Committee and Kiev District Committee) of the Communist Party of Ukraine | |
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In office 10 June 1934 – 16 January 1937 |
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| Preceded by | Nikolai Demchenko |
| Succeeded by | Sergey Kudryavtsev |
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In office 13 November 1924 – November 1926 |
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| Preceded by | Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili |
| Succeeded by | Fyodor Kornyushin |
| Head of the Organizational-Instruction Department of the Central Committee | |
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In office 1932 – January 1933 |
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| Preceded by | Joseph Meezon |
| Succeeded by | Vladimir Polonsky |
| Candidate member of the 17th Politburo | |
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In office 10 February 1934 – 14 January 1938 |
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| Full member of the 17th Secretariat | |
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In office 13 July 1930 – 10 February 1934 |
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| Full member of the 16th Orgburo | |
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In office 13 July 1930 – 10 February 1934 |
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Pavel Petrovich Postyshev 18 September [O.S. 6 September] 1887 Ivanovo, Russian Empire |
| Died | 26 February 1939 (aged 51) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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Pavel Petrovich Postyshev (Russian: Па́вел Петро́вич По́стышев; 18 September [O.S. 6 September] 1887 – 26 February 1939) was a Soviet politician. He is considered to be one of the principal architects of the famine of 1932–33, known in Ukraine as Holodomor.
Postyshev was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk in Vladimir Governorate.
He was a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from 1904, then a member of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) in Siberia. In 1923 he was reassigned from his position in the Far Eastern Republic to supervise organization of the Communist Party committee in Kiev Governorate (guberniya) in central Ukraine. In 1925 Postyshev became secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine, or CP(b)U. In 1926–30 he became a member of the Politburo and Organizational Bureau of Ukraine's Bolshevik Party.
As secretary of the Kharkiv Oblast and city Party committees, Postyshev organized the purge of Trotskyists and Ukrainian national-communists as well as industrialization and collectivization campaigns in the region. In July 1930 he was promoted to the office of secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) in Moscow and put in charge of propaganda and organization.
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