Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, was a Soviet politician and administrator, and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin. He was one of several associates who helped Stalin to seize power.
Kaganovich in the 1930s
Vasily Blyukher, Lazar Kaganovich and Stalin on the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). July 1930
Lazar Kaganovich as People's Commissar for Transport in 1936
Joseph Stalin and Lazar Kaganovich 1930s
Joseph Stalin's rise to power
Joseph Stalin started his career as a radical student, becoming a robber, gangster as well as an influential member and eventually the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He served as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953.
Stalin in custody in 1908
Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and the leader of the Bolshevik party.
Leon Trotsky, founder of the Red Army and a key figure in the October Revolution.
Stalin visiting the ailing Lenin at his dacha in Gorki in 1922.