Nikolai Dudorov

Nikolai Dudorov (Russian: Николай Павлович Дудоров, romanized: Nikolaj Pavlovich Dudorov; 1906–1977) was a Soviet politician who served as the minister of internal affairs between 1956 and 1960.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Pavlovich and the family name is Dudorov.

Nikolai Dudorov
Ministry of Internal Affairs
In office
31 January 1956 – 1 May 1960
Prime MinisterNikolai Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
Vice PresidentFrol F. Kozlov
Anastas I. Mikoyan
LeaderNikita Khrushchev
Preceded bySergei Kruglov
Succeeded byNikolai Shchelokov
Personal details
Born
Nikolai Pavlovich Dudorov

1906
Mishnevo
DiedMarch 1977 (aged 70–71)
Moscow
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery
NationalityUSSR
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
SpouseZoya Alekseevna Dudorova
Children2
Alma materMendeleev Institute

Early life and education

Dudorov was born in a village, Mishnevo, in Vladimir province in 1906.[1][2] In 1927 he joined the Communist Party.[1] He attended the Mendeleev Institute in Moscow from 1929 and graduated in 1934.[1]

Career

Following his graduation Dudorov began to work as a factory shop manager.[1] In 1937 he became part of the industrial bureaucracy and was appointed secretary of the committee of the heavy industry of the Communist Party.[2] After serving in various posts he was named as the head the construction department of the Communist Party's central committee in December 1954.[1]

Dudorov was appointed minister of internal affairs, and his appointment was endorsed by the Presidium on 30 January 1956.[1] He replaced Sergei Kruglov in the post.[3][4] On 25 February he was also elected a full member of the central committee of the Communist Party in the twentieth congress.[5][6]

Dudorov's appointment as the minister of internal affairs was the end of the hegemony of the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) origin figures in the ministry.[3] One of the reasons for Dudorov's appointment by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was his organization skills which were needed to reorganize the Gulag system, the network of forced labor camps.[7] Dudorov advocated parole as a solution to the Gulag problem.[8] He also developed a detailed plan to modify the Gulag, but his plan was not accepted by the related commission although it included three major points, namely Khrushchev's idea of smaller camps, Stalin's views on the prison camps based on industrial development and dominant ideas of the ministry executives on criminals.[7] Later, Dudorov managed to implement a plan to reorganize the penal system depending on smaller colonies, but the plan was not a success.[7] Dudorov's reformist views could not save him from the dismissal on 1 May 1960.[7] Dudorov's membership in the central committee of the Communist party also ended in 1961.[2]

From 1960 to 1967 Dudorov was the general commissioner of the World Exhibition.[2] His last post was the head of a department under the Moscow City executive committee which he held from 1962 to his retirement in 1972 .[2]

Personal life and death

Dudorov was married to Zoya Alekseevna Dudorova (1910–2002), and they had two children, a daughter and a son.[2]

Dudorov died in Moscow in March 1977 and buried there in the Novodevichy Cemetery.[2]

Awards

Dudorov was the recipient of the Order of Lenin (twice), the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the Order of the Red Star.[2]

References
  1. Jeffrey S. Hardy (2016). The Gulag after Stalin. Redefining Punishment in Soviet first secretary Khrushchev's Soviet Union, 1953-1964. Ithaca, NY; London: Cornell University Press. p. 42. doi:10.7591/9781501706042. ISBN 9781501706042.
  2. "Николай Дудоров" (in Russian). Штуки-Дрюки. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  3. Yoram Gorlizki (2003). "Policing post-Stalin society. The militsiia and public order under Khrushchev". Monde Russe. 44 (2–3). doi:10.4000/monderusse.8619.
  4. "The Anti-Terror Trials". Problems of Communism. 7 (6): 4. 1958. ISSN 0032-941X.
  5. "Supplement. Members of the Central Committee". Bulletin: 4. June 1959. Archived from the original on 8 June 2020.
  6. Charles D. Kenney (September 1956). "The Twentieth CPSU Congress and the "New" Soviet Union". The Western Political Quarterly. 9 (3): 581. doi:10.2307/444455. JSTOR 444455.
  7. Marc Elie (2013). "Khrushchev's Gulag: the Soviet Penitentiary System after Stalin's death, 1953-1964". In Denis Kozlov; Eleonory Gilburd (eds.). The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s. Toronto: Toronto University Press. pp. 109–142. ISBN 9781442644601. Archived from the original on 25 January 2022.
  8. Marc Elie; Jeffrey Hardy (2015). "'Letting the Beasts Out of the Cage': Parole in the Post-Stalin Gulag, 1953–1973". Europe-Asia Studies. 67 (4): 589. doi:10.1080/09668136.2015.1030357. S2CID 146429731.
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