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Sergo Ordzhonikidze: Commander of Soviet Industry

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Sergo Ordzhonikidze: Commander of Soviet Industry
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Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze (Sergo) was one of the key figures of the first decades of the Soviet state. Having come a long way from a Caucasian revolutionary to chairman of the All-Union People's Commissariat of National Economy and Commissar of Heavy Industry of the USSR, he played an important role in the development of Soviet industrialization. Ordzhonikidze's image became a symbol of the era and the successes achieved in industry in the early 1930s. Grigory Konstantinovich's state activity is multifaceted: he was a participant in numerous party and economic discussions; he achieved the introduction of the best modern technologies, including foreign ones, into production and embodied the energy of workers; he led Soviet industrialization and actually created the director corps, while popularizing the Stakhanov movement and the movement of women social workers. Ordzhonikidze's sudden death and the emergence of the myth of his suicide became one of the most important foundations of the process of de-Stalinization in the Khrushchev period. Ordzhonikidze is a vivid representative of the era with its dramatic contradictions. His biography is a chronicle of political and economic life of Russia - USSR of the first half of the twentieth century.

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