Grigory Yevdokimov
Grigori Ermeevich Yevdokimov (Russian: Григорий Еремеевич Евдокимов) (October 1884 — August 25th, 1936) Was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman.[1]
Early career and Revolution
A member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party since 1903. He was an active participant in the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War. From August 25, 1920 to May 10, 1921 he was head of the Political Department and member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 7th Army of the Western Front.
The Opposition
Member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (b) in 1919-1920. and in 1923-1927. Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and a member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from January 1, 1926 to April 9, 1926.
After the unification of the supporters of Leon Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev, which took place in the spring of 1926, Evdokimov became an active participant in the "United Opposition." On April 9, 1926, G.E. Evdokimov was relieved of the post of secretary and member of the Orgburo, on November 14, 1927, he was removed from the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). Almost simultaneously, other leaders of the Trotskyite-Zinoviev bloc were removed from the Central Committee. At the 15th Congress of the CPSU (b) in December 1927 Evdokimov was expelled from the party.
He rejoins the party the next year and resumes his career in minor posts but on December 8, 1934, he was expelled from the party for the second time and arrested. He was one of the main defendants in an open trial in the case of the Moscow Center, allegedly connected with the Leningrad Center, which prepared and organized the assassination of Sergei Kirov on December 1, 1934. On January 16, 1935, the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court sentenced him to eight years in prison. Six months later, he was again involved in an open trial in the case of the "Anti-Soviet United Trotskyite-Zinoviev Center" and on August 24, 1936, was sentenced to death. He was shot the next day.
On June 13, 1988, he was rehabilitated by the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR. On November 5, 1988, by the decision of the CPC under the Central Committee of the CPSU he was reinstated in the party.[2]