A Moscow party organizer at the Soviet Union's end
His life, he later recalled, was divided into a before and after the Communist Party ban.
Yuri Prokofyev was a Soviet party cadre who rose through Moscow's party and administrative organizations. As first secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee, he worked at the point where reform collided with the party's disintegration, and joined the Politburo in 1990. He was involved in the activity of the State Committee on the State of Emergency in 1991 without being a member, then turned to memoir writing and technology enterprises after the Soviet Union and the Communist Party were banned.
Career Timeline
- 1957Pioneer leader at a Moscow school
- 1960Joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 1968Cadre in the Moscow City Party Committee's organizational work
- 1977–1985Secretary and first secretary of the Kuibyshev District Party Committee in Moscow
- 1986–1988Secretary of the Moscow City Executive Committee
- 1988–1989Secretary and second secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee
- 1989–1991First secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee
- 1990–1991Member of the CPSU Central Committee and Politburo
The Soviet Politburo
- Full member 1990.07–1991.08
served until the party ban of 1991.11