13 Facts About Andrei Bubnov

Andrei Bubnov studied at the Moscow Agricultural Institute, where he was involved in revolutionary circles beginning in 1900.

On his release from prison in 1909 Andrei Bubnov was made an agent of the Central Committee in Moscow.

Andrei Bubnov was arrested again in 1910, and interned in a fortress.

Andrei Bubnov moved to Samara, where he was arrested in October 1916, and exiled to Siberia in February 1917, but while he was in transit, he heard news of the February Revolution, and made his way back to Moscow.

In Moscow, Andrei Bubnov was elected to the Moscow Soviet and, at the 6th Party Conference in July 1917, he was elected to the Bolshevik central committee, which would later become the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Andrei Bubnov's role was to supervise the seizure of the postal and telegraph systems.

Andrei Bubnov was dropped from the Central Committee in March 1918, but reinstated as a candidate member a year later.

In October 1918, Andrei Bubnov moved to Kyiv, which was ruled by Hetman Skoropadskiy, with German backing, and later by the Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petliura.

Andrei Bubnov's last act as an oppositionist was to sign the Declaration of 46 in October 1923, which was a call for greater party democracy.

Early in 1926, Andrei Bubnov was appointed head of a Soviet delegation to China, to investigate what seemed to be a breakdown in relations with the Chinese military authorities.

In October 1937, during the Great Purge, Andrei Bubnov arrived at the Kremlin for a meeting of the Central Committee, but was barred by the guards from entering.

Andrei Bubnov was arrested by the NKVD a few days later, on 17 October 1937.

Andrei Bubnov was posthumously rehabilitated in March 1956 during the de-Stalinization of the Khrushchev thaw.