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| Affiliation | Communist |
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| Name | Gennady Yanayev |
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| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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August 26, 1937
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| Died | September 24, 2010
(73 years)
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| Contributor | Some say... |
| Last Modifed | Angry Russian
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| Info | A specialist in agriculture, Gennady Yanayev joined the Communist party in 1962. He started his career as a Komsomol leader in the Gorky province serving as a second secretary (1963-1966) and then as a first secretary (1966-1968) of the Komsomol organization in his native province. In 1968 he was made a chairman of the Committee of the Youth Organizations of the USSR. In 1980 Yanayev became deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. In the course of perestroika, Yanayev took more important post as a secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in 1986 and was promoted to the post of deputy chairman in this organization in 1989.
Yanayev shortly headed the Soviet trade unions as the chairman of the Central Council of Trade Unions (April - July 1990), but the 28th party congress elected him a member of the Central Committee (July 1990 - Aug. 1991), which in turn elected him a member of the Politburo (July 14, 1990 - Jan. 31, 1991) and a secretary (July 14, 1990 - Jan. 31, 1991) of the Central Committee responsible for foreign affairs. Yanayev had to resign his post as a trade union boss and joined the higher party structures. On Dec. 27, 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev nominated Yanayev for the post of Vice-President, but he failed to win the first vote in the Congress of People's Deputies (1,089 for, 583 against). Gorbachev refused to put forward another candidate and Yanayev eventually won on the second ballot and became Vice President of the USSR (Dec. 27, 1990 - Sept. 4, 1991). Analysts viewed Yanayev as a compromise selection chosen to placate hard-liners in the CPSU. His nomination prompted resistance from reformists. After he assumed the office, Yanayev quit his job in the Politburo and Secretariat (Jan. 31, 1991).
On Aug. 19, 1991, Yanayev and seven other officials declared the creation of the State Committee for the State of Emergency and claimed that they were taking over the governing of the nation. While Mikhail Gorbachev was falsely declared ill, Yanayev assumed the duties of president. When the coup failed, largely due to public disdain, Yanayev was arrested (Aug. 22, 1991) and charged with treason. The trial of Yanayev and 11 others was postponed in May 1993 amid allegations that it had been compromised by pretrial publicity. In February 1994 the legislature, which is dominated by nationalists and hard-liners, granted an amnesty for all the alleged conspirators.
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