A Belarusian party organizer who sought continuity as the Union dissolved
After the 1991 coup failed, he called the State Committee's formation “a crime against the party.”
Anatoly Malofeyev was a Soviet and Belarusian politician who rose from industrial work through party administration to republican leadership. In the final years of perestroika, he led Belarus's Communist Party with a record of regional administration and a union-preserving party line, and supported the State Committee on the State of Emergency in 1991. After the coup's defeat, he sought to preserve the party organization and later worked in the parliamentary politics of independent Belarus.
Career Timeline
- 1933Born in Gomel
- 1949–1952Mechanic at railway-car repair plants in Gomel and Minsk
- 1952–1956Served in the Soviet Navy
- 1962–1975Worked in Gomel and Mozyr party organizations, becoming Mozyr city first secretary and a Gomel regional party secretary
- 1978–1985Chairman of the Gomel regional executive committee and first secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus regional committee
- 1985–1990First secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus Minsk regional committee
- 1990–1991First secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus Central Committee and member of the CPSU Politburo
- 1996–2000First chairman of the House of Representatives of Belarus's National Assembly
The Soviet Politburo
- Full member 1990.12–1991.08
served until the party ban of 1991.11