Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev
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Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev was a Soviet Communist politician. An Old Bolshevik who rose to power during the rule of Joseph Stalin, he joined the Politburo as a candidate member in 1926 and as a full
Andreyev c. 1953
Andreyev (top row, far left) with other members of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1937. Lavrentiy Beria's portrait has been cut out.
Nikolai Yezhov
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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, also spelt Ezhov, was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, at the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass
Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev
…In November 1938, Andreyev supervised the changes at the headquarters of the NKVD, in which Lavrentiy Beria was confirmed as its new head in place of Nikolai Yezhov, who was arrested and shot. Also in November, he chaired a session of the Central Committee of Komsomol, the communist youth league, at which most of…
Yezhov in 1938
The Gulag newspaper, Perekovka ("Reforging"), front page announcing the replacement of Genrikh Yagoda by Nikolai Yezhov
Yezhov's wife Yevgenia with their adopted daughter Natalia