Andrey
Bubnov was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk on 23rd March 1883. He
studied at the Moscow Agricultural Agricultural Institute and while
a student joined the Social Democratic Labour
Party. He supported the Bolshevik
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 in Nizhny Novgorod. He also contributed to Pravda.
On the
outbreak of the First World War Bubnov became
involved in the anti-war movement. He was arrested in October, 1916,
and exiled to Siberia.
Bubnov
returned to Moscow after the February Revolution.
He joined the Moscow Soviet and was elected
to the Politburo and as a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee
and helped organize the October Revolution.
During
the Civil War Bubnov joined the Red
Army and fought on the Ukrainian Front. After the war he joined
the Moscow Party Committee. A member of the Left Opposition he was
in danger of losing his place in the hierarchy of the Communist Party.
In January,
1924, he switched to supporting the leadership and was rewarded by
being appointed as Head of Political Control of the Red
Army. Elected to Central Committee he was appointed People's Commissar
for Education.
Joseph
Stalin never trusted Bubnov and in 1934 he was removed from power.
In 1937 Andrey Bubnov was arrested and imprisoned where he died in
1940.
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