Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich ' onMouseout='HidePop("2714")' href="/topics/Odessa">Odessa

Odessa

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, Russian Empire

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 – August 30, 1928, Kharbin, China

China

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), also known under the name Gaskovich, was a Soviet

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 military and party leader, and member of Bolshevik RSDLP since 1901.

After the October Revolution

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 he held various higher military, party and governmental posts.

Once Joseph Stalin

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 started to rise to power, Lashevich sided with Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

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. As a result, he was removed from central posts and sent to Kharbin to serve as deputy chairman of the Chinese Eastern Railway

Chinese Eastern Railway

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 (1926-1928). In 1927, at the 15th Congress of the VKP(b), he was expelled from the Party, together with other Trotskyites. In 1928, after he renounced from opposition, his party membership was restored.

In August 1928 he was reported to have been arrested by Chinese authorities in connection with the Barga

Barga Mongols

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 uprising at Hulunbuir

Hulunbuir

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, which was led by Merse

Merse (politician)

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.

Some claim that he committed suicide, others claim he died in car accident.