Editing Kliment Voroshilov (section)

==Interwar period==
[[File:The red banner from the Commune, brought to Moscow by French communists.jpg|left|thumb|The red banner from the [[Paris Commune]], brought to Moscow by French communists. 
On the photo: Kliment Voroshilov first on the right, [[Grigory Zinoviev]] third from the right, [[Avel Enukidze]] fourth from the right and [[Nikolay Antipov]] fifth from the right. 1924
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Voroshilov served as a member of the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Committee]] from his election in 1921 until 1961. In April 1921, he was appointed commander of the North Caucasus military district. In March 1924, he was promoted to the post of commander of the Moscow military district. In 1925, after the death of [[Mikhail Frunze]], Voroshilov was appointed [[Ministries of the Soviet Union#Defense|People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affairs]] and Chairman of the [[Revolutionary Military Council]] of the [[Soviet Union|USSR]], a post he held until 1934. Despite the high offices he held, Voroshilov appears not to have been part in the inner leadership. In November 1930, the chairman of the Russian government, [[Sergey Syrtsov (politician)|Sergey Syrtsov]] alleged that a "tiny group", which excluded Voroshilov but included nominally much less senior figures such as [[Pavel Postyshev]], was making decisions "behind the back of the Politburo".<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Khlevniuk |editor-first1=Oleg  |title=Сталинское Политбюро в 30-е годы |date=1995 |location=Moscow |pages=99–106}}</ref>

His main accomplishment in this period was to move key Soviet war industries east of the Urals, so that the Soviet Union could strategically retreat, while keeping its manufacturing capability intact.<ref name="rosen1">{{cite book |last= Darman |first= Peter |title= The Home Fronts: Allied and Axis Life During World War II |date= 16 December 2012 |publisher= Rosen Classroom |isbn= 978-1448892365 |page= 26}}</ref> Frunze's political position adhered to that of the Troika ([[Grigory Zinoviev]], [[Lev Kamenev]], Stalin), but Stalin preferred to have a close, personal ally in charge (as opposed to Frunze, a "Zinovievite"). Frunze was urged by a group of Stalin's hand-picked doctors to have surgery to treat an old [[Peptic ulcer|stomach ulcer]], despite previous doctors' recommendations to avoid surgery and Frunze's own unwillingness.<ref name="rlge1">{{cite book |last= Erickson |first= John |title= The Soviet High Command: a Military-political History, 1918–1941 |year= 2013 |publisher= Routledge |isbn= 978-1136339523 |page= 199}}</ref> He died on the operating table of a massive overdose of [[chloroform]], an anaesthetic.<ref name="rlge1"/> Voroshilov became a full member of the newly formed [[Politburo]] in 1926, remaining a member until 1960.

Voroshilov was appointed [[People's Commissar]] (Minister) for Defence in 1934 and a [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] in 1935.