Kirov praised Stalin for everything he had done since the death of Lenin. Namely, we centralise and collectivise." In 1934, at the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Kirov delivered the speech called "The Speech of Comrade Stalin Is the Program of Our Party," which refers to Stalin's speech delivered at the Congress earlier. Based on the industrialisation, we conduct transformation of our agriculture. At the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1930, Kirov stated: "The General Party line is to conduct the course of our country industrialization. Kirov was a close personal friend of Stalin, and a strong supporter of industrialisation and forced collectivisation. Kirov was a loyal supporter of Joseph Stalin, the successor of Vladimir Lenin, and in 1926 he was rewarded with command of the Leningrad party organization. In 1921, Kirov became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, the Bolshevik party organization in Azerbaijan. When a bourgeois was caught hiding his own furniture, Kirov ordered him shot." Career In Astrakhan he enforced Bolshevik power in March 1919 with liberal bloodletting more than 4,000 were killed. Simon Sebag Montefiore writes: "During the Civil War, he was one of the swashbuckling commissars in the North Caucasus beside Ordzhonikidze and Mikoyan. Kirov became commander of the Bolshevik military administration in Astrakhan, and fought for the Red Army in the Russian Civil War until 1920. A second story is that Kirov based it on the name of the Persian king Cyrus the Great. One account states that he chose the name "Kir," the Russian version of Cyrus (from the Greek Kūros), after a Christian martyr in third-century Egypt from an Orthodox calendar of saints' days, and Russifying it by adding an "-ov" suffix. Kirov began using the pen name "Kir," first publishing under the pseudonym "Kirov" on 26 April 1912. After a year in custody, Kirov moved to the Caucasus, where he stayed until the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II after the February Revolution in March 1917.īy this time, Kirov had shortened his last name from Kostrikov to Kirov, a practice common among Russian revolutionaries of the time. Soon after his release, Kirov again took part in revolutionary activity, once again being arrested for printing illegal literature. In 1906, he was arrested once again, but this time jailed for over three years, charged with printing illegal literature. Kirov was a participant in the 1905 Russian Revolution and was arrested, joining with the Bolsheviks soon after being released from prison.
After gaining his degree in engineering, Kirov moved to Tomsk, a city in Siberia, where he became a Marxist and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1904. In 1901, a group of wealthy benefactors provided a scholarship for Kirov to attend an industrial school at Kazan. Through her connections, Melania succeeded in having Sergey placed in an orphanage at the age of seven, but he saw his sisters and grandmother regularly.
Sergei and his sisters were raised for a brief time by their paternal grandmother, Melania Avdeyevna Kostrikova, but she could not afford to take care of them all on her small pension of 3 rubles per month. Miron, an alcoholic, abandoned the family around 1890, and Yekaterina died of tuberculosis in 1893. Their first four children had died young, while Anna (born 1883), Sergei (1886), and Yelizaveta (1889) survived. Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov was born on 27 March 1886 in Urzhum in Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire, as one of seven children born to Miron Ivanovich Kostrikov and Yekaterina Kuzminichna Kostrikova ( née Kazantseva). Kirov's assassination remains controversial and unsolved, with varying theories regarding the circumstances of his death. Kirov's death was later used as a pretext for Stalin's escalation of political repression in the Soviet Union and the events of the Great Purge, with complicity as a common charge for the condemned in the Moscow Trials.
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On 1 December 1934, Kirov was shot and killed by Leonid Nikolaev at his offices in the Smolny Institute for unknown reasons Nikolaev and several suspected accomplices were convicted in a show trial and executed less than 30 days later. Kirov became an Old Bolshevik and personal friend to Joseph Stalin, rising through the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ranks to become head of the party in Leningrad and a member of the Politburo.
Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge.