Dmitry S. Polyansky as a regional leader in the memories of Crimeans

Abstract

Dmitry S. Polyansky (1917-2001) is known as one of the CPSU and USSR leaders. He combined his membership in the Politburo of the Communist Party (1960-1976) with the posts of Russian PM, the Deputy and First Deputy Chairman of the all-union Government, the Soviet Minister of Agriculture (1958-1976). Later Polyansky served a SU ambassador in Japan and Norway (1976-1987). As a politic and state activist he was involved to number of odious events: the transfer of the Crimean Oblast (1954), the defeat of the Anti-Party Group (1957), the Ryazan affair (1960), the Novocherkassk massacre (1962), the Nikita S. Khrushchevs

Keywords

• biography
• kremlinology
• interviewing
• crimea local study
• history of russia
• memoires