Dmitry Polyansky

Dmitri Stepanovich Polyansky (Russian Дмитрий Степанович Полянский; * Oktoberjul 25 / 7 November 1917greg in Slawjanoserbsk, Ukraine, .. † 8 October 2001 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.

Life

1939 Polyansky member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and a member of the Komsomol of Kharkov. There he attended the Agricultural College and in 1940 the Party School of the Communist Party in Moscow. From 1945 to 1949 he worked in a responsible position in the Personnel Department (Personnel Affairs and instructor) of the Central Committee of the Party. He continued his career in the party as a young " apparatchik " continues: 1949-1952 Second Obkomsekretär the Crimea, 1952-1953 President of the Oblispolkom the Crimea, 1953-1955 First Obkomsekretär the Crimea, 1955-1957 First Obkomsekretär of Orenburg, 1957-1958 First Krajkomsekretär of Krasnodar.

It was followed by his steep climb in the power centers of party and government: In 1956 he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. 1958 to 1962 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (successor: Voronov ). Since November 1962, he was then a member of the government of the USSR and that of Deputy Prime Minister (task pane agriculture) in the cabinet of Khrushchev and from 1965 Deputy Prime Minister in the first cabinet of Kosygin.

From 1958 to 1960 Polyansky was still a candidate, and on May 4, 1960 to March 4, 1976 a full member in the highest political body of the USSR, the Politburo ( 1952-1966 Bureau ) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ). In 1960, he was 42 years still the youngest member of the Politburo. His rise is similar to Podgornys: In 1957 he also had an active role in the struggle against the Stalinist Khrushchev's enemies, but he also criticized in 1961 by Khrushchev. The fall of Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Party in 1964, he has next to Brezhnev and Suslov actively pursued by his criticism of the failed agricultural policies.

At the 25th Congress of the CPSU in March 1976 lost the restrained in recent years Polyansky - also due to the crop failure of 1975 - his position as member of the Politburo and on 16 March 1976 as Minister of Agriculture of the USSR ( successor Valentin K. Mesjats ).