44 Facts About Alexander Poskrebyshev

Alexander Nikolaevich Poskrebyshev was a Soviet politician and a state and Communist Party functionary.

Alexander Poskrebyshev had one brother, Ivan, and two sisters, Olga and Alexandra.

Alexander Poskrebyshev studied to become a medical assistant, graduating in 1918.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was involved at an early stage in the activities of the Communist Party.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was elected secretary of the local division of the Bolshevik party soon after joining the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was a member of the political committee of the Special Turkestan Army, chairman of the regional Military Revolutionary Committee and regional Council of Workers and Peasants Deputies and worked for the Bolshevik party in Ufa.

Alexander Poskrebyshev moved to Moscow in 1922 within the Central Committee of the CPSU and by 1923 he had become Director of the Administrative Bureau of the Committee.

Alexander Poskrebyshev became an administrator in the Secret Section of the Central Committee shortly thereafter, which would later become the Special Section.

In 1927 Alexander Poskrebyshev graduated in Law and Economics from the Department of Administration and Law of Moscow State University.

In May 1929, Alexander Poskrebyshev became a Deputy of Ivan Tovstukha, Chief of the Secret Section of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

On July 22,1930, Alexander Poskrebyshev was promoted to Chief of the Secret Section.

In 1934 the Secret Section was reorganized as the Special Section of the Central Committee, and on March 10,1934, Alexander Poskrebyshev became the Chief of the Special Section.

In 1934, Alexander Poskrebyshev was elected a candidate member of the Central Committee at the 17th Congress of the CPSU.

In 1935 Alexander Poskrebyshev became the Director of Administration of the General Secretary of Central Committee of CPSU, replacing Ivan Tovstukha, who died of tuberculosis.

Alexander Poskrebyshev stayed in Moscow, working with Stalin, during the Second World War.

Alexander Poskrebyshev prepared documents for the Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam conferences, and participated in the work of the last two.

At the 19th Party Congress that year, Alexander Poskrebyshev was a keynote speaker, and he headed the Secretariat of the Congress.

However, a few months later Lavrentiy Beria accused Alexander Poskrebyshev of losing secret documents, and he was removed from the position by Stalin.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was briefly reinstated after the death of Stalin, but his removal from this position at the end of 1952 essentially marked the end of Poskrebyshev's political career.

From 1935 Alexander Poskrebyshev acted as the Director of Administration of the General Secretary, succeeding Ivan Tovstukha on his death.

Nicolaevsky believes that Alexander Poskrebyshev was given a rubber stamp with which he could affix Stalin's signature to documents.

Nikolaevsky suggested that Alexander Poskrebyshev had been responsible for "liaison with Stalin and supervising the removal of top figures whom Stalin, for one reason or another, did not want openly arrested", and for "surveillance of the Party Secretariat"; It is not clear what document or reference has been used as source of this allegation, and who Stalin removed using Alexander Poskrebyshev and Special Sector of Central Committee.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was accused by Lavrenty Beria of counter-revolutionary liaisons with Leon Trotsky, and was executed in 1941.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was not an ally of Nikolai Yezhov but some collaborative government business was to be expected due to the membership of Nikolai Yezhov in the Secretariat of the Central Committee.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was accused of military conspiracy against the Soviet Union.

Alexander Poskrebyshev did participate in a January 1947 discussion of the publication of Georgi Fedorovich Aleksandrov's History of Western Philosophy.

Alexander Poskrebyshev is not mentioned in the second discussion, whose conclusions were more radical.

Alexander Poskrebyshev began as a political commissar in Turkestan, and served in the political department of the district Revolutionary Military Committee between 1918 and 1919.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was promoted to the rank of Major-General in July 1946.

Alexander Poskrebyshev is said to have worked sixteen to eighteen hours a day, to be a phenomenal organizer, and to have followed Stalin wherever he went.

Alexander Poskrebyshev came home at 5 am and returned to work at 10 am.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was first married to a Polish revolutionary, Jadwiga, from 1919 to 1929; she later died of tuberculosis, in 1937.

Alexander Poskrebyshev had a daughter Galya by a previous marriage.

Everyone knew exactly who Alexander Poskrebyshev was and feared and avoided him.

Alexander Poskrebyshev behaved haughtily with everyone and downright despicably with any member of the Praesidium who had fallen out of Stalin's favour.

Alexander Poskrebyshev used to snarl viciously at Molotov and Mikoyan, for instance, when they fell from grace.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was the first port of call for anyone wishing to see the Soviet leader.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was awarded the Order of Lenin in March 1939, for "many years of exemplary service".

Alexander Poskrebyshev contributed to the Constitution of USSR of 1936 and the History of CPSU of 1938.

Alexander Poskrebyshev received the Order of Lenin a second and third time in 1944 and 1945 for services rendered during the War.

The fourth Order of Lenin Alexander Poskrebyshev received, on 6 August 1951, was for his 60th birthday and in honor of his work for the Communist Party and Soviet Union.

Speculations published by author Helen Rappaport that Alexander Poskrebyshev had been awarded the Order of Lenin due to his services during the Great Purge are not supported historically.

Alexander Poskrebyshev was implicated as being part of a conspiracy with Viktor Abakumov.

Alexander Poskrebyshev received an entry in the First and Second Great Soviet Encyclopedia, but was not included in the Third Edition.