Pavel Postyshev

Pavel Postyshev
Павел Постышев
Postyshev in 1935
First Secretary of the Kyiv Regional Committee (previously of Kyiv Gubernatorial Committee and Kyiv District Committee) of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office
10 June 1934 – 16 January 1937
Preceded byNikolai Demchenko
Succeeded bySergey Kudryavtsev
In office
13 November 1924 – November 1926
Preceded byLavrentiy Kartvelishvili
Succeeded byFyodor Kornyushin
Head of the Organizational-Instruction Department of the Central Committee
In office
1932 – January 1933
Preceded byJoseph Meerzon
Succeeded byVladimir Polonsky
Candidate member of the 17th Politburo
In office
10 February 1934 – 14 January 1938
Full member of the 17th Secretariat
In office
13 July 1930 – 10 February 1934
Full member of the 16th Orgburo
In office
13 July 1930 – 10 February 1934
Personal details
Born
Pavel Petrovich Postyshev

18 September [O.S. 6 September] 1887
Ivanovo, Russian Empire
Died26 February 1939(1939-02-26) (aged 51)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1938)
Communist Party of Ukraine
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Pavel Petrovich Postyshev (Russian: Па́вел Петро́вич По́стышев; 18 September [O.S. 6 September] 1887 – 26 February 1939) was a Soviet politician, state and Communist Party official and party publicist. He was a member of Joseph Stalin's inner circle, before falling victim to the Great Purge.

In 2010, a court in Kyiv refused to posthumously rehabilitate Postyshev, citing his complicity in "genocide" because of his part in causing the Holodomor, mass famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.[1]