Alexander Georgievich Beloborodov

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Beloborodow (back row, 2nd from right) among the leading left opposition in 1927

Alexander Beloborodov Georgijewitsch ( Russian Александр Георгиевич Белобородов ; born October 14, jul. / 26. October  1891 greg. In Perm province ; †  10. February 1938 in Moscow ) was a Russian revolutionary, politician and officer of the State Security.

Life

Beloborodov was born the son of a worker, he himself worked as an electrician. In 1907 he joined the Bolsheviks . In 1908 he was arrested by the Tsarist police and spent four years in prison. After the February Revolution of 1917 , he was elected to the Urals Regional Committee and the Constituent Assembly . From January 1918 he was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Urals Territory Soviet and in this capacity signed the Soviet decision on the shooting of Nicholas II and his family on June 6, 1918 . In March 1919 he was elected to the RKP (B) Central Committee and the Orgbüro at the 8th Party Congress of the RKP (B) . In 1919 he took part in the suppression of the uprising of the Don Cossacks , in 1920 he was political commissar in the North Caucasus, from 1921 to 1923 deputy and from 1923 to 1927 as successor of Dzerzhinsky head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) of the RSFSR . In the power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky after Lenin's death , he initially stood on Trotsky's side as a member of the so-called Left Opposition , which is why he was expelled from the Communist Party in 1927 and banished to Arkhangelsk . In 1930 Beloborodov broke with Trotskyism and was re-admitted as a party member. However, on August 15, 1936, he was arrested and detained and interrogated in the Lubyanka . He was sentenced to death by a military tribunal of the Supreme Court of the USSR and shot on February 10, 1938. In 1958 he was subsequently rehabilitated in the wake of the thaw .

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SURNAME Beloborodov, Alexander Georgievich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian revolutionary, politician and state security officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Perm Governorate
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1938
Place of death Moscow