Who is A. Bubnov? The answer to this question today is almost impossible to get from the young generation. This revolutionary, who became a Soviet statesman and party leader, published many works on history. He signed his works with pseudonyms: S. Yaglov, A. B., A. Glotov.
Bubnov Andrei Sergeevich - a statesman whose heritage is far from unambiguous. It is known about his involvement in repression in the army. Many researchers of history believe that he tried to cover many historical facts from the point of view of communist ideology.
Biographical Information
Historian and publicist Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov, whose biography is closely connected with the revolutionary events of 1917, was born on March 22, 1884. He was repressed, so the exact date of his death has not been reliably established. Some sources say that he died on August 1, 1938, according to other sources - on January 1, 1940.
Place of birth - Ivanovo-Voskresensk. After graduating from a real school, he became a student at the Moscow Agricultural Institute. He failed to finish this educational institution, since in 1903 he joined the RSDLP and began to engage in revolutionary activities.
During the revolutionary events from 1905 to 1907, he alternately entered the Ivanovo-Voznesensky and Moscow Committees of the RSDLP (b), in Ivanovo-Voznesensk he was a member of the bureau of the local union of the RSDLP.
In 1908, Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov was elected to the regional bureau of the RSDLP in the Central Industrial Region.
From 1910 to 1917, fulfilling the party task, he was engaged in revolutionary activities in such industrial cities as St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, etc.
Frequent Arrests
He was arrested in 1908, 1910, 1913. After another arrest in 1916, he was exiled to a Siberian village at the beginning of 1917. The place of exile was supposed to be Turukhansk Territory, but at one stage it was released, since the February Revolution began.
After his release, Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov was introduced to the Moscow Regional Bureau of the RSDLP. The Fourth Party Congress of 1917 included him in the Central Committee. As a representative of the Central Committee, he was sent to the Petrograd Committee of the RSDLP.
As a delegate to the First Moscow Regional Party Conference, Bubnov made a proposal to include in the text of the resolution "On the Provisional Government" the requirement for control by the Soviets over all actions of the Provisional Government and its representatives on the ground.
Preparation and participation in the Great October Socialist Revolution
On October 10, 1917, A. S. Bubnov was introduced into the Politburo of the Central Committee, and six days later he entered the Military Revolutionary Party Center, which was created to lead the uprising.
He was a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee (WRC), served as commissar of railway stations.
During the armed uprising, he headed the Field Headquarters of the VRK. Since November 1917, he was introduced to the board of the People's Commissariat of Railways.
Since December 1917, Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov was appointed commissar for the southern railways.
In 1918, he joined the "left" party members. In March of this year, the VII Congress of the Russian Communist Party was held, where he spoke out as an opponent of the conclusion of the Brest Peace. He read out on this occasion a statement to the Central Committee of February 22, where the possibility of a peace agreement between the belligerents was regarded as the surrender of the international advanced proletarian detachments to the machinations of the international bourgeoisie.
In the spring of 1918 he was sent by the People's Commissar for Economic Affairs to Ukraine. Then he was introduced into the Bureau, whose competence included the leadership of the rebel movement in the enemy rear.
Civil war period
From July to September 1918, Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov served as chairman of the All-Ukrainian Central Military Revolutionary Committee.
From October 1918 until February of the following year he was a member of the Kiev underground committee of the Bolshevik Communist Party of Ukraine, headed the underground regional executive committee and city committee.
From March to April 1919, he was chairman of the Kiev Provincial Executive Committee, then a member of the Defense Council and Politburo of Ukraine. In the same period, he was a member of the Revolutionary Military Councils and led political departments in various armies.
Twenties
Since 1920, Andrey Bubnov, for whom politics has become the meaning of life, having moved to Moscow to work in the Main Directorate for Textile Enterprises, he joined the bureau of the Moscow Party Committee.
He actively participated in the organization of the suppression of the uprising in Kronstadt.
In 1921, he entered the Revolutionary Military Council in the North Caucasus Military District and the First Horse.
During this period, Bubnov inside the party supported the group of "democratic centralism."
Since 1922, he headed the Agitprom Central Committee of the RCP, organized propaganda campaigns.
In 1923, he supported Leo Trotsky, but quickly broke off relations with him and began to support Stalin. After the defeat of Trotsky in 1924, Bubnov served as head of the Political Administration of the Red Army, was a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, was the editor in chief of Red Star.
Repression
Bubnov Andrei Sergeevich - one of the leaders of the purges in the army, when many commissars who had previously adjoined L. Trotsky were dismissed.
Until 1930, he served as Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.), Candidate and member of the Central Committee, member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee, candidate for the Secretariat of the Central Committee.
Since 1928, Bubnov led the fight with members of the opposition group within the Red Army, who were called the “Tolmachevites,” which, in particular, included Landa and Berman.
Educational work
Having taken the post of People's Commissar of Education in September 1929, Bubnov reformed the Soviet school, introducing communist ideology there, and many believe that this was done to the detriment of fundamental knowledge.
Under his leadership, a law was introduced that prescribed compulsory universal primary education.
A lot has been done by him in order to more actively introduce polytechnic education.
Bubnov initiated the opening of a medical institute in his hometown.
He was a delegate to every party congress until 1938.
He wrote a number of works on the history of the formation of the Communist Party, often adjusting certain events to ideological requirements.
Among his works are books on the formation of the Red Army, a series of memoirs about Lenin, several articles on the problems of public education.
End of life
1937 brought a lot of grief to the USSR, repression swept all walks of life. The trouble was not bypassed by A. S. Bubnov. In October, he was relieved of his post. They charged him with the fact that he allegedly "did not do the job."
10/17/1937 Bubnov was arrested. Later he was removed from the Central Committee of the Communist Party. On August 1, 1938, a panel of the Supreme Court sentenced him to death.
Some sources contain information that he was shot immediately after the sentencing. The place of execution of Bubnov is the Kommunark training ground. According to other materials, he died in places of detention on January 12, 1940.
The fate of the daughter of revolutionary Alena Andreevna was also tragic. She was also repressed.
On March 14, 1956, A. Bubnov was rehabilitated and reinstated in the party ranks.
One of the streets in the city of Ivanovo, as well as the medical academy located in this settlement, is named after him. A bust of this statesman was installed next to the academy building.
Since November 1979, the house where Bubnov spent his childhood was turned into a museum.
A. Pyzhikov about Bubnov
In 2015, the historian Alexander Pyzhikov published the book "The Roots of Stalinist Bolshevism."
The researcher believes that the social and confessional origin of Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov is an Old Believer. It was the Old Believers, according to Pyzhikov, who were the backbone of Bolshevism according to the Stalinist and not Leninist model.
The book says that A. Bubnov, a Bolshevik since 1903, as an unreliable was expelled from a higher educational institution. He was a fourth year student at the Moscow Agricultural Institute, which later became the Timiryazev Academy.
For conducting revolutionary activities, the tsarist secret police arrested him 13 times.
A revolutionary was born in the family of a strong merchant. His father was the manager of the Ivanovo-Ascension factory for the production of textiles, which belonged to his uncle. Later, the father of the future Soviet statesman was manager in the Duma of Ivanovo-Voznesensk, when the head was P. N. Derbenev
He was considered the chief assistant at this regional tycoon for the production of textiles.
As you know, the son refused to go the beaten path of his father, preferring the revolutionary path