Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov

Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov

Andrei Sergejewitsch Bubnow ( Russian Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов ; born March 23, 1883 in Ivanovo-Voznesensk , Russian Empire ; † shot dead August 1, 1938 ) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician.

Life

Bubnow studied at the Agricultural Institute in Moscow . During his student days he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party . He supported the Bolshevik group within that party and was arrested thirteen times over the next few years.

In 1909 Bubnow worked as an agent of the party's central committee. After he was arrested again the following year, he was released again to organize the workforce in Nizhny Novgorod . He also wrote articles for the party newspaper Pravda during this time .

When the First World War broke out , Bubnow became active in the anti-war movement. In 1916 he was therefore arrested and exiled to Siberia . After the February Revolution , he returned to Moscow in 1917. At the party conference in April 1917, he was a representative member of the Central Committee of the party and the VI. Party congress of the SAPR (B) elected at the beginning of August as a member of the 21-member Central Committee. Under the chairmanship of Leon Trotsky, he was a member of the Revolutionary Military Committee and was instrumental in preparing for the Bolsheviks to come to power in the course of the October Revolution , primarily to control rail traffic.

During the Russian Civil War , Bubnow joined the Red Army and fought for the Reds on the Ukrainian Front . After the Reds victory, he worked on the party's Moscow committee and became a supporter of the left opposition within the party.

Bubnov was one of the signatories of the Declaration of 46 , published in October 1923, which supported the position taken by Trotsky in the internal disputes. However, he already turned away from Trotsky in January 1924 and now supported his rival Stalin . He became head of the political administration of the Red Army and was re-elected to the central committee of the party.

In 1929 he replaced Lunacharsky as People's Commissar for Education . In this office - which he held in the cabinets of Rykov and Molotov until 1937 - he focused on imparting practical industrial skills.

In November 1937, in the course of the Great Terror , Bubnow was expelled from the Party's Central Committee, arrested and shot on August 1, 1938. After the end of the Stalin era, he was rehabilitated.

literature

• Andrei Sergejewitsch Bubnow , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 15/1956 of April 2, 1956, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Andrei Bubnov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Andrei Sergejewitsch Bubnow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at hrono.info (Russian)