Ivan Tovstukha

Ivan Pavlovich Tovstukha (Russian: Иван Павлович Товстуха, scientific transliteration Ivan Pavlovich Tovstucha; * 10 Februarjul / February 22 1889greg in Beresna, Chernigov Governorate, .. † August 9, 1935 in Moscow) was from 1918 to 1935 secretary of Stalin.

Life

In the wake of the February Revolution in 1917 Tovstukha returned to Russia. After the October Revolution he was until March 1918 on the staff of the Red Guards act, then in the People's Commissariat of Nationalities, where he became the closest confidant of Volkskomissars Joseph Stalin. When Stalin in 1921 in the Central Committee of the RKP ( b ) changed, Tovstukha was also relocated there. From 1922 Tovstukha was Stalin's private secretary, from 1927 head of the Office of the Secretary General of the party. He was involved in many speeches of Stalin as a ghostwriter. 1922 Tovstukha wrote the first official biography of his superiors, who first appeared as an encyclopedia article and was printed in 1927 as an independent publication with a circulation of 50,000 copies. Also put Tovstukha on behalf of his superiors lists of supporters of the internal party opposition movements of the 1920s in which, during the Stalinist purges found use later.

Besides his work as Stalin's secretary Tovstukha worked from 1931 as deputy director at the Moscow Marx-Engels- Lenin Institute. In 1934 he became a candidate of the Central Committee of the VKP ( b). 1935 Tovstukha died of tuberculosis. His ashes were buried at the Kremlin wall in Moscow. His successor as secretary of Stalin took over Alexander Nikolayevich Poskrjobyschew.