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the people, continue to live in these palaces."
117
Kaganovich expresses his deep abhorrence for
the wealth of the upper classes and their disregard for the workers and peasants. His trip to
Petrograd placed him in the important role of attending the All-Russian Conference of Bolshevik
military Party organizations, but it was also a major step in further lighting his revolutionary
sentiments.
"120
After Kaganovich's 1917 June trip, he attempted to return to Saratov but was arrested on
claims that he had illegally traveled to Petrograd. When he was arrested, he was sent to the front
along with other Bolshevik activists; the group never made it however, as they were freed by the
Polese committee of the Bolshevik Party at Gomel' station. 118 Kaganovich remained in this
region during the October Revolution, and he played a key role in securing Bolshevik support in
the key cities of Gomel' and Mogilev. 119 Rees notes that Minsk and the western region of
Belarus were "no backwater, but a major stronghold of Bolshevik support.” Some of the major
roles Kaganovich held around the October Revolution were serving as a member of the Yuzovka
unified committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1917, presiding
over the third congress of soviets in the Mogiliev province, serving as a member of the All-
Russian Bureau of Military Organizations of the Bolsheviks, through which he was a chairman
of a lobbying committee sent to Petrograd, and serving as the deputy to the Constituent
Assembly on the Bolshevik list in Petrograd in early 1918."
121
117 Ibid, 108.
118 Rees, Iron Lazar, 11.
119 Ibid, 12-13.
120 Ibid, 13.
121 Ibid, 13-14.
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