Andrey Andreyev (politician)

Andrei Andreyevich Andreyev (born 18 Oktoberjul / October 30 1895greg in Kuznetsovo, Circle Sytschewow, Smolensk province, .. † December 5, 1971 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician and member of the Politburo of the CPSU.

Life

Andreyev was the son of a peasant family in the province of Smolensk. He attended there for two years a school. From 1905 to 1911 he was employed as support staff in a restaurant in Moscow. From 1911 to 1914 he worked in various places in southern Russia. From 1914, he held various jobs in St. Petersburg.

Rise

Andreyev organized from 1917 to 1919 trade union work in the Urals and the Ukraine. In 1919 he became a member of the Board and in 1920 secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions ( AUCCTU ). From 1922 to 1927/1928 he was chairman of the Union of Railwaymen. 1920 to 1921 he was still Trotsky and Bukharin connected. He lined up then quickly into the wake of Stalin one; later, however, he never quite lost the taint of his former connections to the opposition. Soon he was entrusted with another important functions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ). He was from 1924 to 1925 for the first time Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. From 1928 to 1929 he was secretary of the party organization and the North Caucasus from 1930 to 1931 chairman of the Central Control Commission of the Party.

Government work

In the governments of the USSR, he was under the Chairman of the Government Molotov 1930-1931 People's Commissar of the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspection and 1931-1935 Commissioner for Railway Engineering of the USSR. In the government Stalin, he worked from 1943 to 1945 / 46 and People's Commissar for agriculture. From 1946 to 1953, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers in the government Stalin.

In the center of power

From these posts it rose as Stalin supporters on full membership in the highest political body of the USSR, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and, in the period of 4 February 1932 to 16 October 1952. In the Politburo, he was a specialist responsible for trade union issues for two other areas: As chairman of the Party Control Commission, he has to ensure compliance of party discipline.

As a member of the Council of People's Commissars and Chairman of the Council for Collective Farm - Affairs ( 1946-1952 ), he was one of the top experts for agriculture. From 1938/39, bis 1946, he was for the second time in the important Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1939, he spoke to the XVIII. Congress for the successful " Sweno system" ( division into smaller groups of about 12 farm workers ) in the organization of agriculture, in order to lead the working back to more personal responsibility towards. In 1947, he calls for a mobilization of the party organization in the collective farms and machine-tractor stations ( MTS). Numerous Communist officials were transferred from the cities to the countryside. Private ownership in the country was reduced to a minimum.

Descent

In 1950 he was in an article in the party newspaper Pravda in terms of which he had introduced Sweno system - of course the intervention of Stalin - sharply criticized. He had to - also in Pravda - even criticize and speak out for the then usual brigade system (outline in larger groups ) in agriculture. Beginning of 1952, he was expelled by Stalin arbitrarily from participating in the Politburo sessions ( Khrushchev reported in 1956 in his secret speech to the XX. CPSU Congress ). In October 1952, he lost also formally at the Nineteenth. Congress, his top jobs, but remained after his demotion by Stalin still a member of the Central Committee of the Party.

Honors

Andreyev received

• Four times the Order of Lenin
• The Order of the October Revolution

According to him locomotives were named.