Mikhail Pervukhin
Mikhail Georgijewitsch Pervukhin (Russian: Михаил Георгиевич Первухин, scientific transliteration Mikhail Georgievic Pervuchin; * 1 Oktoberjul / October 14 1904greg in the village Jurjusan, in the district of Zlatoust, Ufa province, .. † July 22, 1978 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.
Political life
Pervukhin began his career in domestic Zlatoust. He was since 1919 a member of the Communist Party of Russia, and first appeared in Zlatoust as a member of the Commission on the nationalization of the assets of the bourgeoisie in appearance. In the fall of 1920 he took part in the suppression of a peasant revolt. As of January 1921, he led the local newspaper Proletarian thought, starting in October 1921, he was head of the political education and a member of the management of the local Komsomol. Then he moved to Moscow, where in 1929 the Department of Economics received his diploma. This was followed by senior positions in the Soviet industry, in 1937 he joined the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry.
Rise
Pervukhin began in 1938 to draw attention to himself when he was appointed Deputy People's Commissar ( Minister = ) for heavy industry in the Cabinet Molotov. In 1939 he was a member of the Central Committee (CC ) of the CPSU and also People's Commissar for power plants and electrical industry. In the 2nd World War, he was one of the Vice " Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars " (name from 1946: Prime Minister ) in the Cabinet Stalin. From 1940 to 1943 he directs the Council for electricity and fuel. From 1943 to 1950 he was People's Commissar and Minister for the chemical industry.
From 1952 to 1957 he was finally a full member in the highest political body of the USSR, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (designation 1952-1966: Bureau ). In 1953, he remained in the Cabinet Deputy Malenkov. Prime Minister and 1955 in connection with the fall of Malenkov, Bulganin even in the Cabinet First Deputy. Prime Minister. In government he is first as Minister responsible for the complex power plants, electrical industry and fuel industry, 1957 to 1958 for the "middle " engineering. From 1956 he also received the key position as head of the Office of the State Plan ( also known as State Economic Commission, thus overseer of all supervisors ). By Khrushchev thus received the state apparatus a significant increase in power in the party.
Descent
Along with the majority (7 of 11) of the Bureau members Malenkov (now Secretary of Energy ), Molotov ( foreign minister ), Kaganovich (Deputy Prime Minister ), Bulganin (Prime Minister), Voroshilov (President of the Supreme Soviet, ie President ) and Saburoff (Minister of Mechanical Engineering ) he tried in 1957 the incumbent First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Khrushchev to disempower. However, this summoned a special session of the Central Committee a - the members were hastily flown with the help of Marshal Zhukov - and in turn the most Chruschtschowgegner were voted out by the Central Committee. Pervukhin is demoted to a candidate the presidency. On the XXI. Party Congress in January 1959, he and Saburoff is called the " dogmatists " of Khrushchev again heavily criticized. In 1961 he loses his office as a candidate of the Bureau. After that, he was not even represented in the Central Committee as a delegate.
From 1958 to 1962 - just during the time of the Wall in Berlin - he was ambassador to the Soviet Union in the GDR and finds mention in the historical correspondence between Ulbricht and Khrushchev from June 1961 At the end of his career he worked on secondary items at Gosplan. .