Yekaterina Furtseva

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Yekaterina Furtseva
Екатерина Фурцева
20th Secretariat
In office
27 February 1956 – 4 May 1960
Personal details
Born(1910-11-24)24 November 1910
Civil servant

Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva (

Yelena Stasova
.

Furtseva was born in Vyshny Volochyok. Until the 1940s, she worked as an ordinary weaver at one of Moscow's textile factories. She had been a minor party worker in Kursk and the Crimea, and was called to Moscow and sent to the Institute of Chemical Technology from where she graduated in 1941 as a chemical engineer.[1] Furtseva's party career started under

Central Committee of the CPSU. Under Nikita Khrushchev
, who sympathized with her, Furtseva was the first secretary of Moscow Committee of the CPSU from 1954 to 1957, a job Khrushchev himself occupied in 1930s.

In 1952, Furtseva attacked the leading filmstar,

unemployed.[2]

In 1956 she was appointed a Secretary of the

Khrushchev's Thaw, and secured the downfall of Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, and Lazar Kaganovich
when they conspired to depose her patron.

During that time she fell in love with Nikolay Firyubin, the Soviet ambassador in Yugoslavia.[3] Furtseva scandalized the Soviet elite by her weekend trips abroad in order to meet her lover.[3] As he married her and rose to become the Deputy Foreign Minister, they settled in Moscow, and their relations cooled down somewhat.[3]

In May 1960, Furtseva suddenly lost her position as a Secretary of the Central Committee, and was appointed USSR Minister for Culture. The reason, reputedly, is that she criticised Khrushchev in a telephone conversation, and he came to hear of it. At the next party congress, in October 1961, she was also removed from the Praesidium. On learning of her dismissal, she reputedly attempted suicide by cutting her wrists.

Novodevichye Cemetery.[7]

References

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  1. ^
    Time
    , March 12, 1956. Accessed 4 January 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d Совершенно СЕКРЕТНО – Чапаем заклейменный. Sovsekretno.ru. Retrieved on 2012-08-05.
  3. ^ a b c Любимые мужчины Екатерины Фурцевой, Аргументы и факты № 02 (104. Gazeta.aif.ru (30 January 2007). Retrieved on 2012-08-05.
  4. ^ "Екатерина Алексеевна Фурцева". Государственное Управление в России. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Taste for luxury downs Soviet leader," Deseret News, 19 June 1974, p. A1
  6. ^ Vladimir Shlapentokh, and Joshau Woods. Contemporary Russia as a Feudal Society: A New Perspective on the Post-Soviet Era. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
    ISBN 978-0-230-60096-6
    ; p. 59
  7. ^ Furtseva's grave. novodevichye.com
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