Nikolai Patolichev
Nikolai Patolichev | |
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Николай Патоличев | |
18th Orgburo | |
In office 18 March 1946 – 24 May 1947 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Zolino, Civil servant | 23 September 1908
Awards | Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of Lenin, (11) Order of the Red Banner of Labour |
Nikolai Semyonovich Patolichev (
Biography
Early life
Nikolai Semyonovich Patolichev was born in 1908 in
Preparations for war economy
Patolichev first arrived in Yaroslavl in August 1938, as a "special representative of the
The following March, at the
A busy year in Moscow
In February 1946 Patolichev was recalled to Moscow to head the Organization and Instruction Department of the Central Committee, and was elected to the Orgburo on 18 March 1946. His role was expanded on 6 May 1946, when he was made a secretary of the Central Committee, taking the place of Georgy Malenkov, who was temporarily demoted.[8] In August, Patolichev became chief of the reorganized Organizational-Instructional department, now called the Directorate for the Checking of Party Organs.[9]
In the fall of 1946, he became first deputy chairman of the Council for Collective Farm Affairs under his mentor, chairman Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev.[10] His responsibilities in Moscow now included the incongruously combined affairs of agriculture and cadres, which led him to his next assignment in Ukraine.
On 3 March 1947, Patolichev and
Patolichev next became first secretary of the Rostov Oblast and City Party Committees, serving from August 1947 to June 1950.
Byelorussian period
According to historian Evan Mawdsley, Patolichev "...recovered from this 'exile' in 1950, with another surprise appointment. In one of the intervals of a Supreme Soviet meeting Stalin called him in and asked him if he wanted to be first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR; Patolichev agreed ('Gotov, tovarishch Stalin – otvetil ia'). In the late Stalin years it was not unusual to appoint ethnic Russians to leading posts in the non-Russian republics; Patolichev's task was to raise local agricultural production." [13] Patolichev succeeded Nikolai Gusarov as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia on 31 May 1950. In October 1952, Patolichev delivered one of the main speeches at the 19th Party Congress and was re-elected to the Central Committee as a full member.
At the Central Committee plenum that followed the 19th Congress, he was also elected candidate member of the enlarged
At the contentious plenum of the Byelorussian Central Committee that followed, the delegates rallied behind Patolichev and rejected the Presidium's decree, which was later dropped.[15] During the discussion of his dismissal at the plenum, Patolichev made an impassioned speech before the assembled delegates:[13]
"I came to Byelorussia by the will of the party, and I am leaving by the will of the party. For the past three years I have spared no effort and have worked as a Communist should. So will I remain to the end of my life, so will I act wherever our great Communist Party sends me."
— Patolichev, Plenum of the Byelorussian Central Committee, June 1953
Patolichev managed to fend off Beria's attempt to remove him, but at the January 1955 Central Committee plenum in Moscow he clashed with
Khrushchev period
In 1956 Patolichev was reassigned from Byelorussia once more to Moscow, this time as First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He served in that position from 1956 to 1958, when he was elevated to the honorable post of Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR.
Death and legacy
Nikolai Patolichev died in Moscow on 1 December 1989. He was 81 years old at the time of his death.
Patolichev is one of two people to have received 11
Works
- "USSR Foreign Trade: Past, Present and Future." Moscow: Novosti Press Agency(1967).
- "USSR Foreign Trade: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow." Moscow: Novosti Press Agency(1971).
- Measures of Maturity, My Early Life. Oxford: ISBN 978-0080245454.
Footnotes
- ^ "Патоличев Николай Семёнович".
- ISBN 978-0-674-01697-2. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
- ^ Beichman 1983, p. 44.
- ISBN 978-0-7735-2666-2. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ Beichman 1983, p. 38.
- ISBN 978-0-8018-6741-5. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-674-01801-3. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-275-95113-9. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-7735-2666-2. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ "A Survey of Internal Developments in the USSR from the 19th Party Congress to Our Day". Documents on Canadian External Relations. October 19, 1953. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
- ^ George Paloczi-Horvath (1960). "Khrushchev: The Making of a Dictator". Little, Brown And Company. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-271-02861-3. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Mawdsley 2000, p. 124.
- ^ Grigory Ioffe (2003). "Understanding Belarus: Questions of Language" (PDF). Europe-Asia Studies. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ "Soviet Union: Political Affairs" (PDF). JPRS Report. 19 May 1989. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ Hope M. Harrison (May 1993). "Ulbricht and the Concrete 'Rose': New Archival Evidence on the Dynamics of Soviet-East German Relations and the Berlin Crisis, 1958–61" (PDF). Cold War International History Project. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ "The World". The Los Angeles Times. October 20, 1985. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ "Nikolai Patolichev". Герои страны ("Heroes of the Country") (in Russian).
Further reading
- ISBN 0-8128-2921-2.
- Mawdsley, Evan and Stephen White (2000). The Soviet elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: the Central Committee and its members, 1917–1991. New York: ISBN 978-0-19-829738-3.