Editing Lazar Kaganovich (section)

==Later life==
Kaganovich was a doctrinaire Stalinist, and though he remained a member of the Presidium, he quickly lost 
influence after Stalin's death in March 1953. In 1957, along with fellow devoted Stalinists as well as other opponents of Khruschev, Vyacheslav Molotov, Dmitri Shepilov, and [[Georgy Malenkov]] (the so-called Anti-Party Group), he participated in an abortive party coup against his former protégé Khrushchev, whose criticism of Stalin had become increasingly harsh during the preceding two years. As a result of the unsuccessful coup, Kaganovich was forced to retire from the Presidium and the Central Committee, and was given the job of director of a small Ural potassium factory. In 1961, Kaganovich was completely expelled from the party and became a pensioner living in Moscow. His grandchildren reported that after his dismissal from the Central Committee, Kaganovich (who had a reputation for his temperamental and allegedly violent nature) never again shouted and became a devoted grandfather.<sup>[8]</sup> In 1984 his re-admission to the Party was considered by the Politburo, alongside that of Molotov.<sup>[9]</sup> At the time of Molotov's death in November 1986, he was refused access to his friend's funeral because of his severe state of dementia.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup>

Kaganovich survived to the age of 97, dying in 1991, just before the events that resulted in the end of the USSR. He is buried in the famed Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.