Lazar Kaganovich
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Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was a Soviet politician and one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates.
Kaganovich in 1950
The Kaganovich brothers in Kiev, 1914. Left to right: Israel, Aron, Mikhail, and Lazar.
Kaganovich in the 1930s
Kaganovich conferring with engineers during the construction of the metro
Nikita Khrushchev
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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. As leader of the Sovi
Lazar Kaganovich
…Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he was appointed a member of the State Defence Committee. After Stalin's death in 1953 and the rise of Nikita Khrushchev, Kaganovich quickly lost his influence. After joining in a failed coup against Khrushchev in 1957, Kaganovich was dismissed from the Presidium and…
Official portrait, 1954
Khrushchev and his first wife Euphrasinia (Yefrosinia) in 1916
Khrushchev's second wife (though they only officially married in 1965) was Ukrainian-born Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, whom he met in 1922. Photo taken in 1924
Lazar Kaganovich, one of the chief enforcers of Stalin's dictatorship and Khrushchev's main patron.