Konstantin Gey

Politician, Deceased Person

1896 – 1939

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Who was Konstantin Gey?

Konstantin Veniaminovich Gey was an early Russian communist party member and a participant in the Russian Revolution of 1917. A member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party since 1916, Gey was instrumental in securing Soviet control in the city of Pskov.

Gey was a member of the Central Committee of the party from 1924 until 1934 and was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus from 1930 until 1932.

During the Great Purge, Gey was demoted from the Central Committee in 1934, arrested in 1938, and executed by shooting in 1939.

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Born
1896
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Died
Feb 25, 1939

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on July 23, 2013

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