Yakov Yakovlev

Yakov Arkadyevich Yakovlev (real name: Epstein; Russian: Я́ков Арка́дьевич Я́ковлев, 9 June 1896, Grodno - 29 July 1938) was a Soviet statesman and politician.

Yakovlev was a Ukrainian Communist who joined the Bolsheviks in 1913. In January 1923 he led the attack on Alexander Bogdanov, criticising him for being a Menshevik in Pravda.^[1] From 1929 he served as People's Commissar for Agriculture for the forced collectivisation. In 1936 he appeared as a witness in the first Moscow trial.^[2] In 1937 he organized the Great Purge in Belarus, in the following year he fell victim to his own.

References

External links

• Yakov Yakovlev at Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991

Leaders of Belarus since 1918
	Belarusian People's Republic (1918–1919) Sierada
	Belarusian People's Republic in exile (since 1919) Krecheuski Zakharka Abramchyk Zhuk-Hryshkyevich Sazhych Rahula* Survilla
	First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Byelorussian SSR (1919–1991) Knorinsh Osatkin-Vladimirsky Krinitsky Goloded Knorinsh Gamarnik Gey Gikalo Sharangovich Yakovlev* Volkov Ponomarenko Gusarov Patolichev Mazurov Masherov Kiselyov Slyunkov Sokolov Malofeyev
	Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus (1991–1994) Shushkevich Kuznetsov* Hryb
/	President of Belarus (since 1994) Lukashenko
* acting