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Kliment Voroshilov

Soviet marshal and head of state under Stalin and Khrushchev.

During the Stalin era (1924–1953), Kliment Voroshilov was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician.[1] Voroshilov's birth occurred on 4 February 1881 in the settlement of Verkhnyeye, which is now part of Lysychansk in Ukraine.[1][2] His death took place on 2 December 1969 when he was 88 years old, and his burial site is the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.[1][3]

Quick Facts

Office
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Premier
  • Georgy Malenkov
  • Nikolai Bulganin
  • Nikita Khrushchev
Took office
15 March 1953
Left office
7 May 1960
Predecessor
Nikolai Shvernik
Successor
Leonid Brezhnev

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Voroshilov described a childhood of extreme hardship, working from age six or seven and receiving frequent beatings from wealthy peasants.[4] His military career began in early 1918 when he commanded the Fifth Ukrainian Army.[5] He commanded Soviet troops during the Winter War from November 1939 to January 1940, suffering about 320,000 casualties.[6] Before enrolling at age 12 in a newly opened school in a nearby village, Voroshilov grew up unable to read or write, and his formal education lasted only two years.[4]

Factory employment began for Voroshilov in 1896 near his home village, and he organized a strike there in 1899.[7] The Red Army's defense of Tsaritsyn in 1918 was jointly led by Voroshilov and Stalin.[5]

What the cited sources add

According to the Open Library record for ISBN 1576070840, "Joseph Stalin" is a 372-page book published by ABC-CLIO in 1999.[8]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Kliment Voroshilov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Old Style date 23 January 1881 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Kliment Voroshilov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Ворошилов Климент Ефремович", Герои Страны (Heroes of the Country) (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Kliment Voroshilov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Forgotten Leaders. Episode 2. Kliment Voroshilov. Documentary. English Subtitles. StarMediaEN", YouTube, 8 May 2018 }}{{cbignore (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Kliment Voroshilov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Georges Haupt, "Makers of the Russian Revolution, Biographies of Bolshevik Leaders", George Allen & Unwin, 1974, p. 281; "Ворошилов, Климент Ефремович – это... Что такое Ворошилов, Климент Ефремович?", Словари и энциклопедии на Академике (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Kliment Voroshilov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brown, Stephen. "Communists and the Red Cavalry: The Political Education of the Konarmiia in the Russian Civil War, 1918–20" The Slavonic and East European Revi; Barmine, Alexander, One Who Survived, New York: G.P. Putnam (1945), footnote, p. 21.; Trotsky, "Stalin, Volume Two: The Revolutionary in Power", Panther, 1969, p. 74 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Kliment Voroshilov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rappaport, "Joseph Stalin: A Biographical Companion", ABC-CLIO, 1999, p. 307; Buttar, "Between Giants: The Battle for The Baltics in World War II", Osprey Publishing, 2015 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Kliment Voroshilov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wolfe, "Three Who Made a Revolution, A Biographical History", Penguin, 1966, p. 390; Tucker, "Stalin As Revolutionary, 1879–1929", Chatto & Windus, 1974, p. 86 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Open Library record, ISBN 1576070840 ("Joseph Stalin"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Kliment Voroshilov (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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