Andrei Bubnov

Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov (Russian: Андрей Сергеевич Бубнов; born March 23, 1883 in Ivanovo- Vosnessensk, Russia, † probably January 12, 1940 ) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician.

Life

Bubnov studied at the Agricultural Institute in Moscow. During his studies, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Russia. He supported the Bolshevik faction within the party and was arrested in the years to thirteen times.

1909 Bubnov worked as an agent of the Central Committee of the Party. After he was arrested again the following year, he was reinstated in freedom to organize the workers in Nizhny Novgorod. He also wrote at this time items for the party newspaper Pravda.

During the Russian Civil War Bubnov joined the Red Army and fought at the Ukrainian Front for the Reds. After the victory of the Red, he worked in the Moscow Committee of the Party and became a follower of the left opposition within the party.

Bubnov was one of the signatories of the published in October 1923 Declaration of 46, at which the by Leon Trotsky represented in the internal party disputes position was supported. However, he turned away in January 1924 by Trotsky and Stalin supported now its rivals. He was head of the Political Administration of the Red Army and re-elected to the Central Committee of the Party.

In 1929 he replaced as People's Commissar for Education Lunacharsky. In this office - that he perceived in the Cabinets of Rykov and Molotov to 1937 - he put the emphasis on the teaching of practical industrial skills.

In November 1937 Bubnov was excluded during the Great Terror of the Central Committee of the party, arrested and probably killed on 12 January 1940. After the end of the Stalin era, he was rehabilitated.