Editing Lazar Kaganovich (section)

==Early life==
Kaganovich was born in 1893 to Jewish parents in the village of Kabany, Radomyshl uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now named Dibrova, Poliske Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine). Early in his political career, in 1915, Kaganovich became a Communist organizer at a shoe-factory where he worked.

Circa 1911 he entered the Bolshevik party (his older brother Mikhail Kaganovich had become a member in 1905). In 1915 Kaganovich was arrested and sent back<sup>[''by whom?'']</sup> to Kabany. During March – April 1917 he served as the Chairman of the Tanners Union and as the vice-chairman of the Yuzovka Soviet. In May 1917 he became the leader of the military organization of Bolsheviks in Saratov, and in August 1917, he became the leader of the ''Polessky Committee'' of the Bolshevik party in Belarus. During the October Revolution of 1917 he led the revolt in Gomel.