Petro Shelest

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Petro Shelest was a Soviet Ukrainian Communist Party leader who served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1963 to 1972 and was known for his relatively pro-Ukrainian stance within the USSR.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Communist Party functionary
Soviet politician
Ukrainian Soviet statesman
human
areaOfInfluence Ukrainian SSR domestic policy
Ukrainian national and cultural policy within the USSR
causeOfDownfall accusations of Ukrainian nationalism
conflict tensions with Moscow over Ukrainian cultural and economic autonomy
countryGoverned Soviet Ukraine
surface form: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
endTime 1972
era Cold War
ethnicGroup Ukrainian
factionWithin Ukrainian national-communist current in CPSU
familyName Shelest
givenName Petro
hasRole member of Soviet ruling elite
regional party leader
historicalContext Leonid Brezhnev
surface form: Brezhnev era

post-Stalin Soviet Union
ideologicallyDescribedAs hardline communist with national-communist tendencies
languageSpoken Russian
Ukrainian language
surface form: Ukrainian
memberOf Communist Party of Ukraine
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
name Petro Shelest self-link
notableFor leadership of the Communist Party of Ukraine in the 1960s
relatively pro-Ukrainian stance within the USSR
notedFor comparatively tolerant attitude toward Ukrainian cultural expression
support for development of Ukrainian industry
opposedBy Soviet central authorities
partOf Communist Party leadership
surface form: Soviet political leadership
politicalIdeology Marxism–Leninism
communism
positionHeld First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine
replacedInOfficeBy Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
sphereOfActivity party leadership
state administration
startTime 1963
subordinateTo Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
workLocation Kyiv
Soviet Ukraine
surface form: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

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Petro hasNotableBearer Petro Shelest
Petro Shelest name Petro Shelest self-link