Jakob Naumowitsch Drobnis
Jakob Naumowitsch Drobnis ( Russian Яков Наумович Дробнис ; born March 6, 1890 in Hluchiw , today Sumy Oblast , Ukraine ; † February 1, 1937 ) was a Soviet politician and a leading member of the Left Opposition in the Soviet Union .
Life
The son of a Ukrainian shoemaker became a revolutionary in 1904 and joined the Bolsheviks in 1907 . After the October Revolution of 1917, he fought in the civil war in Ukraine and survived an attempted execution by the white people , seriously wounded . He later became vice-chairman of the Small Council of People's Commissars , the executive government committee of the Soviet Union. In 1927, Drobnis was expelled and banished from the CPSU as a left oppositionist , and surrendered in 1929.
In the second Moscow show trial , Drobnis was sentenced to death and then shot. His son Nikolai (* 1918), a student at the Aviation Institute in Moscow , was convicted on July 13, 1937 and also executed.
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| SURNAME | Drobnis, Jakob Naumowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drobnis, Yakov; Дробнис, Яков Наумович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet politician and left opposition, victim of Stalinism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hluchiw |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1937 |