Sergei Ivanovich Gusev (revolutionary)

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Sergei Ivanovich Gussew ( Russian Сергей Иванович Гусев ; * 1874 , † 1933 ; pseudonym: Jakow Dawidowitsch Drabkin ) was a Bolshevik professional revolutionary and functionary.

Life

As a student in Petersburg, Gusev came into contact with revolutionary groups and became a member of the Petersberg Kampfbund for the liberation of the working class. He worked from 1899 to 1903 in Rostov-on-Don for the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDLP). Gusew was a participant in the 2nd Party Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 and then worked for the Bolsheviks in Odessa, Moscow and Petersburg. In October 1917, Gusev was one of the secretaries of the Military Revolutionary Committee; during the civil war as a member of the Revolutionary War Council on the Eastern and Southern Fronts. In the spring of 1921 he became head of the political administration of the Revolutionary War Council.

For the 10th party congress of the KPR in March 1921, Gusev wrote together with Frunze theses about the reorganization of the Red Army (against its conversion into a militia army), which the authors withdrew after Lenin's negative attitude and Trotsky's open opposition became known. At Trotsky's suggestion, Gusev was replaced as head of the political administration of the Revolutionary War Council in the autumn of 1922. In 1923 he became secretary of the Central Control Commission and developed into a reliable assistant to Stalin . From 1925 to 1926 he was head of the press department of the Central Committee and from 1929 until his death in the summer of 1933 a member of the Executive Committee of the Comintern . He was buried at the Kremlin wall with military honor, but then "retrospectively erased from party history. Many of his friends and relatives were arrested. "

Gusev was later officially referred to as an 'excellent military man' again in the Soviet Union.

Web links

Commons : Sergey Ivanovich Gusev (Bolshevik)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roy A. Medvedev: The truth of our strength , history and consequences of Stalinism, Frankfurt 1973, p. 225.
  2. ↑ Life data from: Trotsky writings, Volume 2.1, Hamburg 1988, footnote 69 p. 914
personal data
SURNAME Gusew, Sergei Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drabkin, Jakow Dawidowitsch (pseudonym); Гусев, Сергей Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Bolshevik professional revolutionary and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH 1874
DATE OF DEATH 1933