Andrei Boubnov

Andreï Sergueïevitch Boubnov (March 23rd 1883 - January 12th 1940) is a Russian politician, one of the leaders Bolchevik S of the Révolution of 1917.

Andreï Boubnov was born with Ivanovo-Voznesensk. He made his studies at the Agronomic Institute of Moscow and, for this period, adhered to the Social democrat Party (POSDR) in 1903. He belonged to the faction Bolshevik of this party and for this reason, during the years which followed, in particular after the revolution of 1905 in which he took part, thirteen times by the police force tsarist were stopped. In 1909, it was designated as member of the Central committee to Moscow, which was worth to him to turn over in prison as of the following year. After its release, it was delegated to Nijni-Novgorod in order to organize the labor movement there. It also took part in the newspaper the Pravda and will support a time the fraction Otzoviste which, under the direction of Alexander Bogdanov, then preached (1909) the boycott of the III° Douma.

When the First World War burst, Boubnov is invested in the movement of the opponents to the war. It again was stopped in 1916 and, this time, was relegated in Siberia. In October 1917, it is with the Politburo, belonged to the secret insurrectionary directory and the revolutionary Military committee. From 1918, it occupies of the positions of responsibility. As a member of the Central committee at that time, he is a marked partisan of the democratic centralism at the time of the debates of X° Congrès of March 1921.

After a timid support for Trotski in October 1923, it joined the “troika” in December and ose to criticize Nadejda Kroupskaïa, the partner of Lénine. Adviser near the Kuomintang in 1928, it preaches with Borodine the support for Tchang Kaï-Chek. He breaks with Trotski at the beginning of this year and replaces in 1929 Lounatcharsky with the Commission of the Instruction which he will direct until 1937.

Raised of its functions on this date, it is stopped like so many “old Bolsheviks” and is carried out in 1940 (of other sources indicate that it is death in prison or even alive in 1956, like Helene Carrère d' Encausse, but its “liquidation” before the war is very probable). Boubnov was official historian of the party but after its arrest its works were banished by the capacity.

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