Editing Lazar Kaganovich (section)

==''The Wolf of the Kremlin''==
Kaganovich and his wife M. Privorotskaya during WW1

In 1987, American journalist Stuart Kahan published a book entitled ''The Wolf of the Kremlin: The First Biography of L.M. Kaganovich, the Soviet Union's Architect of Fear'' (William Morrow & Co). In the book, Kahan made a series of claims about Kaganovich's working relationship with Joseph Stalin and his activities during the Ukrainian famine, and claimed to be Kaganovich's long-lost nephew. He also claimed to have interviewed Kaganovich personally and stated that Kaganovich admitted to being partially responsible for the death of Stalin in 1953 (supposedly by poisoning). A number of other unusual claims were made as well, including that Stalin was married to a sister of Kaganovich (supposedly named "Rosa") during the last year of his life and that Kaganovich (a Jew) was the architect of anti-Jewish [[pogrom]]s.<sup>[10]</sup>

After ''The Wolf of the Kremlin'' was translated into Russian by Progress Publishers, and a chapter from it printed in the ''Nedelya'' (''Week'') newspaper in 1991, remaining members of Kaganovich's family composed the ''Statement of the Kaganovich Family'' in response. The statement disputed all of Kahan's claims.

Rosa Kaganovich, who the Statement of the Kaganovich Family says was 
fabricated, was referenced as Stalin's wife in the 1940s and 1950s by 
Western media including ''The New York Times'', ''Time'' and ''Life''.<sup>[11][12]</sup>