Prokopy Zubarev

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

Prokopy Zubarev
Прокопий Зубарев
Deputy People's Commissar of Agriculture
In office
1934 – March 1937
Personal details
BornFebruary 1886
Died15 March 1938(1938-03-15) (aged 52)
Moscow
Cause of deathExecution
CitizenshipSoviet
Political partyCPSU

Biography

Zubarev was born in to a peasant family of Russian[1] ethnicity and was a Bolshevik from 1904. 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.[2] In 1929, he served in the Northern Krai Soviet.

Prokopy Zubarev was one of the defendants in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" of 2-13 March 1938. He was accused of disrupting the food supply and having been a member of the czarist secret police.[3] On 13 March 1938 he was sentenced to death and on 15 March 1938 he was executed by the NKVD via firing squad.[4] He was rehabilitated in 1965.

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


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