Word: bubnov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph Unschlicht, one of the top military Chekists in the civil war, later chief of the Red air force, had opposed Stalin's violent farm collectivization policy. He disappeared. And there were others: Andrei Bubnov, onetime education commissar (TIME. April 2); Sergei Kamenev, chief of chemical defense; Moisei Rukhimovich, commissar of defense industry; and M. S. Kedrov, chief of the defense section of the State Planning Commission. The point about all these liquidated Old Bolsheviks was that they were all connected with Russian defense. Said Voprosi Istorii drily: "There were many other comrades who did much to strengthen...
Nobody recognized the aging white-haired man who walked about Moscow, staring with rheumy eyes at the broad streets and tall buildings. He was Andrei Bubnov, one of the five top Bolsheviks to direct the October 1917 Revolution. As Lenin's Commissar of Education he had set out to create Homo sovieticus, the new Soviet man. But somewhere along the line, vodka-swilling Andrei Bubnov had tangled with a new type of Soviet man called Joseph Stalin, and in 1937 he disappeared. Unlike tens of thousands of other old Bolsheviks, Bubnov had survived 19 years of Soviet prison camps...
...Bubnov was luckier than Nikolai Voznesensky, a Politburo member who disappeared in 1949 after his book on economics was denounced by Mikhail Suslov, a member of today's Presidium. Last week Moscow learned that Stalin had personally written the end to the Voznesensky story. It was one word-"execution"-scribbled across Voznesensky's dossier (Khrushchev called it "murder...