Konstantin Mikhailovich Oberuchev (June 4, 1864-September 29, 1929) was a Russian revolutionary and writer.
Biography
editOberuchev attended the Mikhailovskaya Military Artillery Academy.[1] In 1888, while living in St. Petersburg, he joined Narodnaya Volya.[2] In 1913, Oberuchev was arrested in Moscow for political activities and exiled from Russia for three years.[3] Following this exile, he returned to Russia a few days before the February Revolution, where he was arrested again.[4] He was the commander of the Kiev Military District for eight months in 1917.[5] During this period, Oberuchev was an opponent of Ukrainian nationalism, believing that "both Ukrainians and Bolsheviks were destroying the army for their own agendas".[6] He argued against the formation of separate Ukrainian military units,[7] and was also opposed to the creation of a Czechoslovakian army.[8] Following the October Revolution, Oberuchev was invited to serve in Lenin's government but he did not agree to the offer, as he was opposed to the Bolsheviks' politics.[1]
He immigrated to the United States in April 1918.[9] In the United States, he was active in several anti-Bolshevik organizations. He was active in the Federation of Russian Organizations in America, which advocated for a democratic government in Russia.[10] During the Federation's second convention in 1918, he stood for election as the organization's chairman, running as the Menshevik candidate against John M. Constantinoff.[11] In July 1919, he established the Fund for the Relief of Men of Letters and Scientists in Russia.[12]
References
edit- ^ a b von Hagen, Mark (2008–2009). "A Socialist Army Officer Confronts War and Nationalist Politics: Konstantin Oberuchev in Revolutionary Kyiv". Journal of Ukrainian Studies. 33–34: 175.
- ^ Reese, Roger R. (2019). The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917. University Press of Kansas. p. 162. ISBN 9780700628605.
- ^ Senn, Alfred Erich (1971). The Russian Revolution in Switzerland, 1914-1917. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 136. ISBN 9780299059415.
- ^ Melancon, Michael S. (1990). The socialist revolutionaries and the Russian anti-war movement, 1914-1917. Ohio State University Press. p. 295. ISBN 9780814205273.
- ^ Ther, Phillipp, ed. (2009). A Laboratory of Transnational History: Ukraine and Recent Ukrainian Historiography. Central European University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9789639776265.
- ^ Orlovsky, Daniel T., ed. (2020). A Companion to the Russian Revolution. Wiley. p. 250. ISBN 9781118620892.
- ^ Hunczak, Taras, ed. (1977). Ukraine, 1917-1932.: a study in revolution. Harvard University Press. p. 14. ISBN 9780674920095.
- ^ Hoyt, Edwin Palmer (1967). The army without a country. Macmillan. p. 46.
- ^ "Report Kerensky Coming to America: Expected Here Within Two Weeks, According to Gen. Oberoucheff's Information". The New York Times. May 17, 1918. p. 3.
- ^ "Row at Russian Meeting: Federation Convention Stirred by Factional Strife". The New York Times. December 15, 1918. p. 20.
- ^ "Russians Seek End to Nation's Chaos". The New York Sun. December 14, 1918. p. 6.
- ^ Saul, Norman E. (2001). War and revolution : the United States and Russia, 1914-1921. University Press of Kansas. p. 385. ISBN 9780700610907.