Andrei Bubnov
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| Andrei Bubnov Андрей Бубнов |
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| Russian Narkom of Enlightment | |
| In office September 1929 – October 1937 |
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| Prime Minister | Aleksei Rykov Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Anatoly Lunacharsky |
| Succeeded by | Pyotr Tyurkin |
| Head of CVRK in Ukraine | |
| In office July 12, 1918 – September 18, 1918 |
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| Preceded by | Volodymyr Zatonsky as head of CIKUk |
| Succeeded by | Fyodor Sergeyev |
| Chief of Red Army Political Directory | |
| In office January 17, 1924 – October 1, 1929 |
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| President | Mikhail Frunze Kliment Voroshylov |
| Preceded by | Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko |
| Succeeded by | Yan Gamarnik |
| Member of Petrograd VRK | |
| In office October 1917 – October 1917 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov April 3, 1884 Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1 August 1938 (aged 55) Shooting range "Kommunarka", Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | CPSU (1903-) |
| Alma mater | Moscow Agricultural Institute |
| Occupation | revolutionary, politician, Communist ideologist |
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov (Russian: Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов) (March 23, 1884 – January 12, 1940)[1] was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia, and member of the Left Opposition.
[edit] Biography
Andrei Bubnov was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now Ivanovo, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia) on 23 March 1884 into a local merchant's family.[2] He studied at the Moscow Agricultural Institute and while a student joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1903. He was a supporter the Bolshevik faction of the party and over the next years would be arrested by the czarist government a total of thirteen times.
In 1909 Bubnov was made an agent of the Central Committee in Moscow but the following year he was back in prison.[citation needed] On his release he was sent to organize workers in Nizhny Novgorod. He also contributed to Pravda.
On the outbreak of the First World War Bubnov became involved in the anti-war movement. He was arrested in October, 1916, and exiled to Siberia.
Bubnov returned to Moscow after the February Revolution. He joined the Moscow Soviet and was elected as one of the seven members of the Politburo. As a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee he helped organize the October Revolution.
During the Russian Civil War Bubnov joined the Red Army and fought on the Ukrainian Front. After the war he joined the Moscow Party Committee, and became a member of the Left Opposition.
Andrei Bubnov signed the Declaration of 46 in October 1923, but in January, 1924, he switched to supporting Joseph Stalin and was rewarded by being appointed as Head of Political Control of the Red Army. Elected to Central Committee, he replaced Lunacharsky as People's Commissar for Education.
As Commissar for Education he ended the period of progressive, experimental educational practices and switched the emphasis to training in practical industrial skills.
He was expelled from the Party Central Committee in November 1937, arrested and perished in the Great Purge. Bubnov was posthumously rehabilitated in 1958. His close relatives were still searching for him in various psycho-hospitals in 1970s.
[edit] References
- ^ Some sources claim him to be perished in 1940
- ^ Guide to the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union
