Bazhanov's application was accepted by Ivan Ksenofontov, a prominent member of the Soviet Union's state security apparatus. Bazhanov applied to the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the highest policy-making authority within the CPSU, for a technical position. In 1922, the Ukrainian SSR joined the Soviet Union as one of its constituent republics. Ukraine's political disputes ended in a victory for the communists and the territory split among the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania. In November 1920, Bazhanov went to Moscow and studied engineering. He was elected district secretary and climbed the CPSU ranks in Ukraine. He later wrote he had rejected Ukrainian nationalism because he had been raised with the Russian culture.
Communist Party membership īazhanov joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1919, recalling later that he'd had to choose between Ukrainian nationalism and communism. However, the university was closed shortly after his arrival, and during a student protest of the closure, Bazhanov was shot and returned home to recover. In 1918 Bazhanov graduated from high school, and that September entered the University of Kyiv despite the political situation. Bazhanov's native Ukraine witnessed some of the worst splintering of power, and the Ukrainian territory was fought over continuously by various ideological factions during the Ukrainian Civil War. Bazhanov was 16 years old upon the beginning of the Russian Revolution in March 1917. Bazhanov was granted French citizenship and survived subsequent Soviet assassination attempts, writing and publishing memoirs and books from 1930 about Stalin and the secrets behind the Stalin regime.īazhanov was the only member of Stalin's Secretariat to defect, and one of the first major defectors from the Eastern Bloc.īoris Georgiyevich Bazhanov was born on 9 August 1900, in Mogilev-Podolskiy, Russian Empire (present-day Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine). Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov (Russian: Бори́с Гео́ргиевич Бажа́нов 9 August 1900 – 30 December 1982) was a Soviet secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who defected from the Soviet Union on 1 January 1928.īazhanov was the personal secretary of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin from August 1923 to 1925 and held several prominent secretarial positions in the Politburo until defecting from the Soviet Union in 1928.
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