- Andrei Bubnov
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov (
March 23 ,1883 -January 12 ,1940 ) was aBolshevik revolution ary leader inRussia , and member of theLeft Opposition .Andrei Bubnov was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now
Ivanovo ) on 23rd March 1883. He studied at theMoscow Agricultural Institute and while a student joined theRussian Social Democratic Labour Party . He supported theBolshevik faction and over the next few years was arrested thirteen times.In 1909 Bubnov was made an agent of the
Central Committee in Moscow but the following year he was back in prison. On his release he was sent to organize workers inNizhny Novgorod . He also contributed toPravda .On the outbreak of the
First World War Bubnov became involved in theanti-war movement . He was arrested in October, 1916, and exiled toSiberia .Bubnov returned to Moscow after the
February Revolution . He joined theMoscow Soviet and was elected as one of the seven members of thePolitburo . As a member of theMilitary Revolutionary Committee he helped organize theOctober Revolution .During the
Russian Civil War Bubnov joined theRed Army and fought on theUkrainian Front . After the war he joined theMoscow Party Committee , and became a member of theLeft Opposition .Andrei Bubnov signed
the Declaration of 46 in October 1923, but in January, 1924, he switched to supportingStalin and was rewarded by being appointed as Head of Political Control of theRed Army . Elected to Central Committee he replaced Lunacharsky asPeople'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.
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