Stanisław Bobiński
Stanisław Feliks Bobiński (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswaf bɔˈbiɲskʲi]; Russian: Станислав Янович Бобинский; 20 November 1882 – 20 September 1937) was a Soviet communist politician, journalist and military commander of Polish origin.[1][circular reference]
Early years
Born November 20, 1882, in Warsaw to a gentry family of an insurance official Jan Bobiński and his wife Stanislava (Polish Stanisława Tołwińskich). He began his studies in Warsaw, then graduated from the faculty of philosophy of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. He continued his studies at the Academy of Forestry in Dresden, where he received his diploma in 1911.
In 1913 he returned to Warsaw and became a member of the committee of the SDKPiL party. Evacuated from Warsaw in 1915, he moved to Moscow.
Revolution and war
In 1917 he became an active member of the Bolshevik Party. He was one of the directors of the Polish-language Trybuna newspaper published in revolutionary Moscow and a notable promoter of the communist movement among the Polish expatriates in Russia.
At the end of 1917, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly from the Smolensk and Minsk districts on list No. 7 (Bolsheviks). He participated in the first and last meeting of the Assembly on January 5, 1918.
A representative of the SDKPiL at the
After the end of World War I in Russia he started to organize the Red Regiment of Revolutionary Warsaw, a military unit of the
Soviet career
He continued his career as a Soviet communist politician and at various times he was a delegate to the
In 1926-1928 he worked as a researcher at the Communist Academy in Moscow. In addition, he was an activist of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP): in particular, in 1921 and 1925-1926 he was a member of the representation of the Central Committee of the KPP in the executive committee of the Comintern. He was also the director of the Moscow Polytechnic Institute. In 1929 he was demoted from most his party posts and became a head of a technical museum in Moscow.
Execution and rehabilitation
He was arrested in the evening of June 15, 1937 by the NKVD during the Great Purge on charges of participating in the counter-revolutionary organization Polish Military Organisation ("POW"), conducting espionage activities in the USSR on behalf of Polish intelligence, having knowledge of other members' terrorist plans, and Luxemburgism.
He was sentenced to death by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. The court session lasted twenty minutes and execution took place on September 20, 1937. Cremated in the crematorium at the Don Cemetery, the ashes were buried anonymously.
He was rehabilitated by the Soviet government in 1955.