Editing Lazar Kaganovich

{{Infobox politician|name=Lazar Kaganovich|native_name=Ла́зарь Кагано́вич|image_size=200|birth_date=22 November 1893|birth_place=Kabany, [[Russian Empire]]|death_date=25 July 1991 (aged 98)|death_place=[[Moscow]], [[RSFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]|political_party=[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]|image=Kaganovich.png}}

'''Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich''' was a [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet]] politician and the last-living Old Bolshevik, who died a mere five months before the [[overthrow of the Soviet Union]] in July 1991.

== Political career ==
During the [[October Revolution]], the Central Committee assigned Kaganovich along with many other Bolsheviks to direct the revolution in the countryside.<ref>{{Citation|author=Joseph Stalin|year=1939|title=History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)|chapter=The Bolshevik Party in the Period of Preparation and Realization of the October Socialist Revolution|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/ch03.htm|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/ch07.htm}}</ref>

During the [[Russian Civil War]], Kaganovich led the struggle against [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] forces in [[Central Asia]].<ref>{{Citation|author=Joseph Stalin|year=1939|title=History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)|chapter=The Bolshevik Party in the Period of Transition to the Peaceful Work of Economic Restoration|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/ch03.htm|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/ch09.htm}}</ref>

== References ==
[[Category:Bolsheviks]]
[[Category:Soviet politicians]]