Background
ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO, Vladimir was born on March 9, 1884 in Chernigov. Son of a lieutenant.
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ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO, Vladimir was born on March 9, 1884 in Chernigov. Son of a lieutenant.
1904 graduate Saint St. Petersburg military school.
1902 joined Mensheviks. 1905 organized Warsaw Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Military Committee. Foreign propaganda among troops and for organizing 1906 revolt in Sebastopol sentenced to death.
Verdict commuted to 20 years at hard labor. 1907 escaped, conducted propaganda work in Finland, then in Saint St. Petersburg and Moscow. 1910 went to France, organized and contributed to internationalist newspapers Golos, Nashe slovo and Nachalo: 1916 broke with Mensheviks and joined leftist Zimmerwald Group.
May 1917 returned to Russia and joined Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks). Foreign his part in 1917 July riots arrested by Provisional Government and together with Trotsky imprisoned in Kresty Prison. During 1917 October Revol member, Military-Revol Committee.
Directed storming of Winter Palace and arrest of Provisional Government. 1917 at 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets elected member, Committee for Military and Naval Affairs, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Council of People's Commissar. From November 1918 member, Ukraine Revol Military Council.
1919 commander, Petrograd Military district. Later commander, Ukraine Front. 1920 Collegium member, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic People's Commissariat of Labor.
Deputy chairman, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Small Council of People's Commissar. Board member, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. 1921 helped crush Antonov peasant revolt in Tambov Province and Kronstadt Mutiny.
January-Junc 1919 commander in chief Armed Forces of Ukraine Republic and Donets Workers’ Republic. Later Ukraine People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs.
Fall 1922-1924 head, Polit Board, and member, Ukraine Revol-Military Council. 1923-1927 sided with Trotskyist opposition, advocated various measures concerning the Red Army, which would have virtually changed the principles of the Army’s Party infrastructure. From 1925 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics plenipotentiary in Czechoslovakia.
From 1928 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics plenipotentiary in Lithuania From 1930 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics plenipotentiary in Poland. Foreign some time Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Prosccuter.
1938 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics plenipotentiary in Spain. Elected member, All-Russian Central Executive Committee. Arrested by State Security organs.
Communist Party member from 1917.