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Ольга Григорьевна Шатуно́вская | |
| Born | Olga Grigoryevna Shatunovskaya March 1, 1901 |
| Died | November 23, 1990 (aged 89)
Moscow, Russia |
| Burial place | Vvedenskoye Cemetery, Moscow |
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| Known for | member of Shvernik Commission |
| Political party | CPSU |
| Children | 1 |
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Olga Grigoryevna Shatunovskaya ( Russian: Ольга Григорьевна Шатуновская; 1 March 1901, Baku – 23 November 1990, Moscow) was a prominent Old Bolshevik. In 1918, Olga Shatunovskaya was the secretary of the head of the Baku Council of People's Commissars. She served an 8-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag. Shatunovskaya played an important role in the implementation of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union. [1] [2] A survivor of the Gulag, she was a member of Shvernik Commission created by Nikita Khrushchev to investigate the crimes of Joseph Stalin. [3]
Early life
Olga Shatunovskaya was born in Baku in a Jewish family. Her father, Grigory Shatunovsky (1871–1922), was a lawyer and studied at St. Petersburg University. Her mother mother, Victoria Borisovna Shatunovskaya (1876–1957), was a housewife.
Career
Shatunovskaya became a member of the Communist Party when she was 16. After the February revolution, he worked in the editorial office of the newspaper "Bakinski Rabochi".
A close associate of Anastas Mikoyan, he headed the press office of the Baku Council of People's Commissars during the Baku Commune period, and was the secretary of the Chairman of the Baku Council of People's Commissars Stepan Shaumian. [4]
Since 1920, he was the secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, the secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, and then worked in party work in Bryansk province.
From 1925, he worked again in Azerbaijan as the secretary of the district committee and was a member of the Baku party committee.
She was arrested in November 1937 [5], and in May 1938 he was sent to a Gulag labor camps for 8 years on charges of being a "counter-revolutionary Trotskyite organization" by the NKVD. From the Old Bolshevik she became a political prisoner of the Stalinist regime.
After Stalin's death in 1953, she was rehabilitated in the Soviet Union on May 24, 1954 by the Commission for the Review of Cases of Convicts and Exiles.
In 1956–1962, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in 1960 he dealt with issues related to the rehabilitation of those who were repressed, and was a member of the Shvernik Commission established by the Presidium of the Soviet Union.
Olga Grigoryevna Shatunovskaya became a member of the Soviet Party Control Committee, and head of a special commission on rehabilitations during the Khrushchev Thaw. [4] She was the chief-investigator of the Kirov murder [3]. She retired in 1962.
Shatunovskaya was honored with the highest Soviet medals.
Her memoirs, recorded by her children and grandchildren, were turned into a book by philosopher and essayist Grigory Pomerants under the title Sledstvie vedet katorzhanka [Investigation led by convict], published in 2004.
References
- ^ Cohen, Stephen F. (2011). The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin. London: I. B. Tauris & Company. pp. 89–91. ISBN 9781848858480.
- ^ Shakarian, Pietro A. (12 November 2021). "Yerevan 1954: Anastas Mikoyan and Nationality Reform in the Thaw, 1954–1964". Peripheral Histories. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ a b Pomerants, Grigory (1 June 2009). "Сталин – заказчик убийства Кирова" [Stalin Ordered the Murder of Kirov]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ a b Smith, Kathleen E. (2017). Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring. Cambridge,MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 96–98. ISBN 9780674972001.
- ^ Victims of political terror in the USSR. (in Russian) Database of the Memorial Society.
Further reading
- Shatunovskaya, Olga Grigoryevna (2001). Об ушедшем веке (in Russian). La Jolla, California: DAA Books. ISBN 9783000042089 – via Sakharov Center, Moscow.
External links
- Biography of Shatunovskaya (in Russian) Archived 2015-04-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Khrushchev Era Politics and the Investigation of the Kirov Murder, 1956-1957
- Documentary: How Two Little-Known Officials Dismantled the Stalinist System
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