Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov (March 23, 1883 - January 12 1940) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia, and member of the Left Opposition. March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Leaders of the Bolshevik Party and the Communist International, a painting by Malcolm McAllister on the Pathfinder Mural in New York City and on the cover of the book Lenin’s Final Fight published by Pathfinder. ... It has been suggested that Revolutionary be merged into this article or section. ... The Left Opposition was a faction within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1923-1927. ...

Andrei Bubnov was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now Ivanovo) 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. Ivanovo (Russian: Ива́ново) is the administrative center of Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. ... Leaders of the Bolshevik Party and the Communist International, a painting by Malcolm McAllister on the Pathfinder Mural in New York City and on the cover of the book Lenin’s Final Fight published by Pathfinder. ...

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. Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Ни́жний Но́вгород), colloquially shortened as Nizhny and also transliterated into English as Nizhniy Novgorod or Nizhni Novgorod, is the fourth largest city of the Russian Federation, ranking after Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Novosibirsk. ...

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 as one of the seven members of the Politburo. As a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee he helped organize the October Revolution. Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ... The Petrograd Soviet, or the Petrograd Soviet of Workers and Soldiers Deputies, was the council set up in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg, Russia) in March 1917 as the representative body of the citys workers. ... The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the first having been instigated by the events around the February 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, and became a member of the Left Opposition. The Left Opposition was a faction within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1923-1927. ...

Andrei Bubnov signed the Declaration of the 46 in October 1923, but in January, 1924, he switched to supporting Stalin and was rewarded by being appointed as Head of Political Control of the Red Army. Elected to Central Committee he replaced Lunacharsky as People’s Commissar for Education. The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (in Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya), the armed forces first organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ...

As Commissar for Education he ended the period of progressive, experimental educational practices and switched the emphasis to training in practical industrial skills.

He was expelled from the Party Central Committee in November 1937, arrested and perished in the Great Purge. The Great Purge is the name given to campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s. ...

Bubnov was posthumously rehabilitated.