Background
POSTYSHEV, Pavel was born on September 18, 1887 in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. Son of a weaver.
POSTYSHEV, Pavel was born on September 18, 1887 in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. Son of a weaver.
Electrician by trade. From 1901 active in revol movement. May—July 1905 took part in strike and was elected to Ivanovo-Voznesensk Soviet of Workers’ Deputy.
1906 elected to Board, Cotton-Printers’ Union. 1906 member, Ivanovo City Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. 1907-1908 member, Bureau, Ivanovo Okrug Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee.
April 1908 arrested; February 1910 sentenced to four years’ hard labor. December 1912 exiled for life to Irkutsk Province. 1914-1917 member, Irkutsk Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Bureau.
Head, Irkutsk City Metalworkers’ Union. From March 1917 deputy, from August 1917 deputy chairman, Irkutsk City Soviet of Workers’ Deputy, and chairman, Centr Bureau of Trade-Union League. Helped to establish Soviet regime in Eastern Siberia.
From December 1917 member, Irkutsk Military Revol Committee. Organized Red Guard units. Chairman, Revol Tribunal and member, Siberian Centr Executive Committee.
1918 represented this Executive Committee on Far Eastern Council of People’s Commissar, Khabarovsk. During Civil War did underground work in Far East. Commanded partisan units in Amur distr.
1919 comissar of a partisan unit. 1920 Khabarovsk distr plenipotentiary for Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Candidate member, Far Eastern Bureau, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
From August 1921 Far Eastern Republic government plenipotentiary for the Baykal Oblast. From October 1921 member, Provisional Revol Committee, from December 1921 member, Military Council, Eastern Front, Far Eastern Republic. From April 1922 oblast comissar for Far Eastern Republic government.
August 1923 sent by Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) to Ukraine to head Org and Instructors Department, Kiev Province Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine. September 1924 elected secretary, Kiev Province, then Kiev Okrug Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine. December 1925 elected member, Central Committee, and candidate Politbureau member, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine.
November 1926 elected Politbureau and Org Bureau member and secretary, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine. 1926-1930 also secretary, Khar'kov Okrug and City Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine. From July 1930 Org Bureau member and Seer, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
July 1930—J an 1932 head, Agitation and Propaganda Department, and Org Department, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). March 1933 again elected secretary Politbureau and Org Bureau member and secretary, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine. Also secretary, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and first secretary, Kiev Oblast Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine (from July 1934).
Deleg at 9th and 13th—17th Party Congresses. At 14th Congress elected candidate member, and at 15th—17th Congresses elected member, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Member, USSR and All-Ukraine Centr Executive Committee.
Presidium member, USSR Centr Executive Committee. From 1934 candidate Politbureau member, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1937 convocation.
1937 relieved of his post as secretary, Kiev Oblast Party Committee and secretary, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine. From March 1937 secretary, Kuybyshev Kray All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. 1938 relieved of duties as candidate Politbureau member, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
1938 arrested by State Security organs.
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Communist Party member from 1904.