Andrej Boebnov Andrej Sergejevitsj Boebnov (Russian: Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов) (Ivanovo, March 23, 1883 - Moscow Oblast, August 1, 1938 or January 12, 1940) was a Russian Revolutionary Bolshevik leader and victim of Stalin's Great Purification. Life
Andrej Boebnov was born in Ivanovo as a merchant's son. He studied in Moscow (agriculture) and in 1903 he joined the Bolshevik Group of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. He was frequently involved in revolutionary activities and was arrested thirteen times by the tsarist police in the period until the Russian Revolution (1917).
During the First World War he was involved in anti-war agitation and in October 1916 he was banned from Siberia. After the February revolution (1917) he was released and went to Moscow, where he became a member of the Moscow Soviet, the Military Revolutionary Committee, the first Politburo and the Central Committee. As such, he was closely involved in the organization of the October Revolution.
After the revolution, Boebnov fought during the Russian Civil War in Ukraine. In 1923, as a member of Trotsky's Left Opposition, he signed the so-called "Declaration of 46" (inter alia against Stalin's increasing power as Secretary General), but from 1924 he turned from Trotsky and still chose the side of Stalin. He was appointed Head of Political Control of the Red Army, re-member of the Central Committee and in 1929, he followed Anatoli Loenatsjarski as a Public Affairs Commissioner for Education, which he remained until 1937.
In 1937, he was suddenly shot out of the party, arrested and disappeared during the "Great Purification", presumably because he had ever co-signed the "Declaration of 46". The circumstances surrounding his death have never been fully elucidated, but probably he was executed at the "Kommunarka" shooting site on August 1, 1938 or January 12, 1940.
In 1958, under Cheshire, Boebnov was rehabilitated. Literature and sources Externe link
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