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In 1930, he became a member of the Soviet Politburo, and during the 1930s he became famous for his modernization of Moscow, including the construction of the first phase of the Moscow Metro. The Metro was named after Kaganovich until 1955. He also supervised the implementation of many of Stalin's economic policies, including the collectivization of agriculture and rapid industrialization.
According to Robert ConquestDr Robert Conquest Dr George Robert Ackworth Conquest (born July 15 1917), British historian, became one of the best-known writers on the Soviet Union with the publication in 1968 of his classic account of Stalin's purges of the 1930s, The Great Terror''. and many historians of the period, Kaganovich, in league with MolotovMolotov can mean: Vyacheslav Molotov was a Soviet politician Molotov is a Mexican HipHop group Molotov cocktail is a weapon., engineered the 19321932 is the leap year starting on Friday. see link for calendar) Events January-February January 3 British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees Jan- 33Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Years: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 See also 1933 in aviation 1933 in film 1933 in literature 1933 in mu UkrainianUkraine Ukrayina in Ukrainian; in Russian) is a republic in eastern Europe which borders the Black Sea to the south, the Russian Federation to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west and Romania and Moldova to the west and famine or Holodomor in which 7 to 10 million people died (although different sources give a widely varying number of dead), motivated by the goal of preventing the possible opposition that the relatively self-sufficient peasantry posed, combined with chauvinist anti-Ukrainian and anti-Kazakh measures aimed at eradication or diminution of Ukrainians and ethno-territorial expansion of Russians. However, other academics in Soviet studies such as Moshe Lewin , Alexander Dallin and Alec Nove dismiss the idea that the famine was a deliberate act.
Kaganovich was JewThe word Jew is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to either a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or a member of the Jewish culture or ethnicity. This article discusses the term as describing an ethnic group; for aish by birth, but ideologically he was a staunch atheist. He was, until 1957, a full member of the Politburo and its successor, the Presidium. Kaganovich was an early mentor of Nikita Khrushchev, who first rose to prominence as his Moscow City deputy in the 1930s. In 1947, when Khrushchev was stripped of the Party leadership in the Ukraine (he remained in the somewhat lesser head of government job), Stalin dispatched Kaganovich to replace him until the former was reinstated late that year.
Kaganovich was a rigid Stalinist, and though he remained in the Presidium, quickly lost influence after Stalin's death in March 1953. In 1957, along with fellow hard-line Stalinist Vyacheslav Molotov and Malenkov (the so-called Anti-Party Group) he participated in an abortive party coup against his former protege Khrushchev, who had over the preceding two years become increasingly harsh in his criticism of Stalin. As a result, Kaganovich was forced to retire from the Presidium and the Central Committee, and in 1964 he was expelled from the party.
Kaganovich survived to the age of 97, dying just before the events that led to the final unravelling of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Lazar's older brother, Mikhail Kaganovich , was a mid-ranking Soviet official. Their sister, Rosa Kaganovich , is rumoured to have been Stalin's mistress for a period.