Pavel Postyshev

Pavel Postyshev
Павел Постышев
Postyshev in 1935
First Secretary of the Kyiv Regional Committee (previously of Kyiv Gubernatorial Committee and Kyiv District Committee) of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office 10 June 1934 – 16 January 1937
Preceded by	Nikolai Demchenko
Succeeded by	Sergey Kudryavtsev
In office 13 November 1924 – November 1926
Preceded by	Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili
Succeeded by	Fyodor Kornyushin
Head of the Organizational-Instruction Department of the Central Committee
In office 1932 – January 1933
Preceded by	Joseph Meerzon
Succeeded by	Vladimir Polonsky
Candidate member of the 17th Politburo
In office 10 February 1934 – 14 January 1938
Full member of the 17th Secretariat
In office 13 July 1930 – 10 February 1934
Full member of the 16th Orgburo
In office 13 July 1930 – 10 February 1934
Personal details
Born	Pavel Petrovich Postyshev 18 September [O.S. 6 September] 1887 Ivanovo, Russian Empire
Died	26 February 1939(1939-02-26) (aged 51) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1938) Communist Party of Ukraine
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Pavel Petrovich Postyshev (Russian: Па́вел Петро́вич По́стышев; 18 September [O.S. 6 September] 1887 – 26 February 1939) was a Soviet politician, state and Communist Party official and party publicist. He was a member of Joseph Stalin's inner circle, before falling victim to the Great Purge. In 2010, a court in Kyiv judged Postyshev guilty of complicity in genocide because of his part in causing the mass starvation in Ukraine in the early 1930s, known as the Holodomor.