Pavel Postyshev
Pavel Postyshev | |
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Павел Постышев | |
Postyshev in 1935 | |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine | |
| In office 10 June 1934 – 16 January 1937 | |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Demchenko |
| Succeeded by | Sergey Kudryavtsev |
| In office 13 November 1924 – November 1926 | |
| Preceded by | Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili |
| Succeeded by | Fyodor Kornyushin |
| Head of the Organizational-Instruction Department of the Central Committee | |
| In office 1932 – January 1933 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph Meerzon |
| Succeeded by | Vladimir 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 |
| Died | 26 February 1939 (aged 51) |
| Party | RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1938) Communist Party of Ukraine |
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Pavel Petrovich Postyshev (Russian: Павел Петрович Постышев; 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.