Alexei Kosygin
Soviet politician (1904-1980)
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He ran the Soviet economy and shared power at the top for sixteen years, yet hardly anyone outside Russia remembers his name. Alexei Kosygin was the technocrat who tried to reform the system from within — until the tanks rolled into Prague and his rival took over for good.
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Born in 1904 to a working-class family in Saint Petersburg, Kosygin was conscripted into the labour army during the Civil War, then spent the 1920s managing industry in Siberia. He climbed the Soviet hierarchy through the 1930s and during World War II orchestrated the mass evacuation of factories ahead of the German advance. Stalin elevated him to minister, then abruptly ejected him from the Politburo in 1952. After Stalin's death he returned, chairing Gosplan in 1959 and becoming First Deputy Chairman a year later. When Khrushchev was ousted in October 1964, Kosygin took the premiership and i…
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