Sheboldaev - Bolshevik revolutionary, regional leader, member of the party fronde of the 1930s

Abstract

The article attempts to highlight the political biography of the leader of the Azov-Black Sea region B.P. Sheboldaev from the standpoint of the concept of the party fronde in the 1930s. The first secretary of the party was a strong, energetic leader who contributed to the renewal of Cossack politics, to the solution of a number of national economic issues, which was subsequently blamed on him as a political leader who had escaped the repression of the Trotskyists. Sheboldaev had his own opinion on agrarian policy issues, advocated the use of self-financing and independence by collective farms, material incentives, and restriction of repression of peasants. But under the harsh pressure of I.V. Stalin, he launched a struggle in the province against "Kulak sabotage" and the persecution of dissenting communists. During the work of the CPSU Congress of the CPSU (b), he participated in the fronder "tea party" of the old Bolsheviks, who discussed the possibility of replacing I.V. Stalin as General Secretary with S.M. Kirov. The Rostov secretary voluntarily and involuntarily took part in the organization of personnel repressions of 1936 -1937. Together with a number of old Bolsheviks, Sheboldaev, as a contradictory personality, became the personification of the unprincipled opposition, the doubting party fronde, destroyed by dictator Stalin in 1937–1938.