Prokopy Zubarev

Prokopy Timofeevich Zubarev (February 1886 - 15 March 1938) was a Soviet politician and statesman. He was purged and executed during the "anti-Trotskyist" repressions of Stalin.

Prokopy Timofeyevich Zubarev
Зубарев, Прокопий Тимофеевич
People's Commissar of Agriculture Deputy
In office
1934  March 1937
Personal details
Born1886
Died15 March 1938(1938-03-15) (aged 52)
Moscow
Cause of deathExecution
CitizenshipSoviet
Political partyCPSU

Biography

Prokopy Zubarev was one of the defendants in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" of 2-13 March 1938. From 1915 to 1917, he served in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I. He served in the Soviet of the Ufa Governorate in 1922.[1] In 1929, he served in the Northern Krai Soviet. He was accused of disrupting the food supply and having been a member of the czarist secret police.[2] On 13 March 1938 he was sentenced to death and on 15 March 1938 he was executed by the NKVD via firing squad.[3]

References

  1. Hyde, Harford Montgomery (1971). Stalin, the History of a Dictator. Da Capo Press. p. 371ccc. ISBN 0306801671.
  2. Trotsky, Leon; Allen, Naomi; Breitman, George (1976). Writings of Leon Trotsky, Volume 10 (2nd ed.). Pathfinder Press. p. 479. ISBN 0873484681.
  3. Adams, Alexander (June 13, 2014). "The vanished and the defaced". www.spiked-online.com. Retrieved 23 August 2019.


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