district in 1936-1937. In 1938 he participated, as a judge, in the trial of the Tukhachevsky group. Downfall Dybenko was among the officers purged from the Party in 1938. At first, he was moved from his command of the Leningrad Military District officially for "lack of trust" and appointed Deputy People's Commissar of Forestry Industry, as a preparation for his arrest, in order to disconnect him from his followers. Five days later, he was arrested and accused of Hitlerite conspiracy and links with Mikhail Tukhachevsky. He did not deny the accusations of using state funds to organize sex and alcohol orgies. The NKVD tortured him by putting him in a small iron box. Zinaida Viktorovna Dybenko (Дыбенко Зинаида Викторовна), Dybenko's third wife, was arrested and charged with being a "ЧСИР" (ChSIR) - "a member of traitor's family". She confessed to the authorities about her husband being a traitor and a spy. She was sentenced to five years in the "Akmolinsk camp for the wives of traitors to the Motherland". Dybenko was sentenced to death, and shot. Twenty years later, following the death of Stalin, he was rehabilitated. Books by Dybenko The Depths of the Tzarist Navy (В недрах царского флота), 1919; The Rebels (Мятежники), 1923; October on Baltics (Октябрь на Балтике) 1934; The Baltic revolutionaries (Революционные балтийцы) From the Depth of the Tzarist Navy to the Great October (Из недр царского флота к Великому Октябрю) free online full text, russian References External links The Truth About Kronstadt - A translation of Pravda o Kronshtadte, The Truth about Kronshtadt, part of a Bates College bachelor's thesis by Scott Zenkatsu Parker. Dybenko (Russian) different versions of Dybenko's biography. Dybenko: Rebel and Hangman (Russian) A very detailed Dybenko biography from an anticommunist source (www.mahno.ru), emphasizing the 1917–1921 years. "How the People's Commissar Dybenko crushed the Germans at Narva", Suvorov's version of Dybenko's biography (free full text, Russian) An Interview with George Levy Myth of February 23, 1918 by George Levy: Part 1 , Part 2 The Revolutionary Consciousness of Pavel Dybenko http://paveldybenko.blogspot.com/ by George Levy: focus on causes of revolution and Dybenko and sailors activities through revolution 1889 births 1938 deaths Great Purge victims from Ukraine Old Bolsheviks People from Chernigov Governorate People from Novozybkov Russian Constituent Assembly members Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Russian anti–World War I activists Russian military personnel