On July 12, the Soviet party leader Vadim Medvedev died. Many media in the necrologues claimed that he was the last of the surviving members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU. We checked the reliability of this information.
About the death of Medvedev reported The press service of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, which he headed in Soviet times. Many of the media who wrote about this called Medvedev the last member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Among those who used this formulation were "RIA Novosti", "Kommersant","RBC" RTVI, "Gazeta.ru" Lenta.ru, "New newspaper"And others.
Political Bureau Central Committee of the CPSU It was a governing party body in the USSR. The Politburo was elected members of the Central Committee, it included the most prominent political figures in the country, the leaders of the highest party and state bodies. So, the Central Committee, formed on XXVII Congress of the CPSU March 6, 1986, Approved members of the Politburo Mikhail Gorbachev, Heydar Aliyev, Vitaly Vorotnikov, Andrei Gromyko, Lev Zaikov, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Yegor Ligachev, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Mikhail Solomentsev, Viktor Chebrikov, Eduard Shevardnadze and Vladimir Shcherbitsky. Subsequently, the composition of the Politburo changed: some members left (most often in retirement), and instead of them they introduced new ones. Vadim Medvedev became part of the Politburo on September 30, 1988 at the next plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
From that Politburo at the time of writing this analysis, indeed, no one has survived. However, this was not the last composition of the party’s governing body. In July 1990, the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU was held, at which at the initiative of Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev It happened Another reorganization of the Central Committee. In the original composition of the new Politburo Entered 24 people. Later, as in previous times, the composition changed a bit, and this process continued until the end of July 1991. Then passed Last Plenum of the Central Committee of the Party. In August, President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin I suspended, and then finally stopped the activities of the CPSU.
Many of the Politburo, formed in 1990, are still alive. Among them are the first president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, former chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Egor Straev, former President of Moldova Peter Luchinskyformer deputy of the European Parliament from Latvia Alfred Rubix, party leader Ivan Polozkov, who is this year It turned 90 years old, vice president of the Russian Council for International Affairs Alexander Dzasokhov and others.
Thus, although Vadim Medvedev was actually the last member of the Politburo, formed in 1986, he cannot be called the last living member of this body in principle. In 1990, a new Politburo was formed, acting up to the ban on the CPSU, and many of its members are still alive.
Photo on the cover: Parties of the Pervomaisky demonstration carry portraits of members of the Politburo. Screenshot Oinfo.ru
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