When the Russian Revolution broke out, he was the organizer of a Bolshevik group in Baku, and by 1931 he had become first secretary of Georgia's Communist party.
When the Russian Revolution broke out, he was the organizer of a Bolshevik group in Baku, and by 1931 he had become first secretary of Georgia's Communist party. During World War II, he served as vice-president of the State Committee for Defense, having been appointed minister for internal affairs after Nikolay Yezhov, his predecessor, was shot. FTP, name this longtime leader of the NKVD, who was executed in 1953 after he lost the power struggle following Stalin's death.
When the Russian Revolution broke out, he was the organizer of a Bolshevik group in Baku, and by 1931 he had become first secretary of Georgia's Communist party.
Lavrenti {Beria}