Aleksei Kiselyov (politician)

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Aleksei Semyonovich Kiselyov (

Bolshevik Party leader and Soviet official, of working-class extraction.[1]

Biography

Born near

Tsarist authorities
.

Permitted to return to the west by the general amnesty of the February Revolution in 1917, Kiselev resumed his position on the Central Committee. He later became only a candidate (alternate) member of the Central Committee, and served this role from 1917 to 1934.

In 1920 Kiselev supported the

Russian SFSR, and a reserve member to the same role for the whole Soviet Union.[2]

Bust of Aleksei Kiselyov in the city of Ivanovo

With Joseph Stalin in power, on September 7, 1937, after 20 years of service to the Soviet government, Kiselev was arrested for allegedly belonging to an "anti-Soviet counter-revolutionary organisation". Kiselev was almost immediately shot after his arrest (in Moscow).

He was among the first to be

De-Stalinization
).

References

  1. ^ "Kiselev A.S. Handbook on the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991". Archived from the original on 2017-07-18.
  2. ^ Kiselev, Alexey Semenovich // Great Russian Biographical Encyclopedia (electronic edition). - Version 3.0. - M .: Businessoft, IDDK, 2007. // Big biographical encyclopedia.