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Alexander Krinitsky
Александр Криницкий
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
In office
September 1924 – 7 May 1927
Preceded byAleksandr Osatkin-Vladimirsky
Succeeded byVilhelm Knorin
Head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee
In office
7 April 1924 – 3 December 1925
Preceded byVilhelm Knorin
Succeeded byAleksei Stetskii
Personal details
Born(1894-09-09)9 September 1894
Tver, Russian Empire
Died30 October 1937(1937-10-30) (aged 43)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1915–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)

Alexander Ivanovich Krinitsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Крини́цкий; 1894, Tver – 1937) was a Soviet statesman and first secretary of the Communist Party of the Byelorussian SSR from May 1924 to December 1925.[1]

Early life and Revolution

Born in Tver, he was the eldest son in the family of an employee of the provincial chancellery. He graduated from the Tver gymnasium with a gold medal (1912).

He studied at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute in 1912 however he did not graduate. He later studied at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University.

In 1915 Krinitsky he joined the Bolsheviks and fomented propaganda and agitation among students of Moscow University, from which he was expelled. He was then arrested in 1915 and sentenced to eternal settlement in Eastern Siberia. But on 6 (19) March 1917, he was amnestied and released. After his release, he was actively involved in revolutionary work.[2]

In the Soviet Union

From September 1924 to May 1927 in the Byelorussian SSR : The Secretary, in December 1925 with the 1st Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarussia (Bolsheviks). In Belarus, A. Krinitsky, as a typical representative of the elite party, implemented the idea of strengthening the USSR as a single highly centralized union state, commanding and administratively managing the economy, and a complete monopoly on the power of the Communist Party. At the same time, he was influenced by the strength in the 1920s local nation-oriented wing of the Communist Party of Belarussia.

From May 1927 he was head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Agitprop). From 1929 - he was secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Committee of the UCP (b), then deputy people's commissar of the RSI USSR, also a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Bolshevik". He was deputy head of the agricultural department (b), since 1933 - Head of the Political Department and Deputy People's Commissar of the USSR and Secretary of the Saratov Regional Committee of the Party.

During the Great Purge, he was arrested on 20 July 1937, removed from the Central Committee and Orgburo on 12 October 1937, sentenced to death on 29 October 1937 and executed the next day.[3]

Krinitsky was rehabilitated on 17 March 1956.

References

  1. ^ www.hrono.ru http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/krinicki.html. Retrieved 2021-05-21. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ www.hrono.ru http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/krinicki.html. Retrieved 2020-11-27. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ Krinitsky, Alexander Ivanovich - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .