Ideologies / Stalinist-Marxist / Lazar Kaganovich
§ The minds · 1893–1991 · Soviet Union · Politburo official
Lazar Kaganovich
Stalin's enforcer
Industrialisation by ruthless command.
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One of Stalin's closest lieutenants, an iron administrator of forced industrialisation and a key implementer of the regime's repressive machinery.
social
Hard modernising functionary of the command state.
economic
Drove forced industrialisation and railway/heavy-industry targets.
governance
A leading executor of Stalinist repression and purge campaigns.
Notable for
- Oversaw Soviet industrialisation drives
- Built the Moscow Metro
- Last surviving Old Bolshevik
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