General Petrovsky led the Directorate of Military Education in the Red Army from 1919 to 1924 and co-founded the Governmental Committee for the Fight against Antisemitism in Russia and the Soviet Union.

In 1903 he moved to Paris and enrolled in the Russian Higher School of Social Sciences,[1] where he became acquainted with many of the famous revolutionaries: Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Anatoly Lunacharsky.

[4] In addition to his role as a functionary of the JSF, Goldfarb worked as labor editor of Abraham Cahan's Yiddish-language daily, Forverts (The Forward).

In January 1919, David Lipetz survived the pogrom committed by haidamaks from the Kuren Smerti (Clan of Death)[clarification needed], which was passing through Berdichev.

As mayor of the city at that time he also managed to prevent a planned multi-day pogrom in Berdichev that saved thousands of lives.

At the same time David Lipetz entered into a polemic with V. Lenin about the policy of the Bolsheviks regarding the participation of the Jewish population of Ukraine in the work of the state authorities.

He had a difficult task of rebuilding it during ongoing civil war and unrest, and preparing a young generation in military academies, colleges, and training centers.

[14] Yet in 1924 Mikhail Frunze expresses gratitude to him for "the fruitful work done over the matter of raising the military power of the Soviet Union.

Petrovsky came to England under the name of Bennett, and everyone - even the British Communists and his future wife Rose Cohen considered him American - a Yankee from the East Coast of the United States.

He led the Anglo-American Secretariat and controlled the communist movements in Great Britain, Ireland, the US, India, South Africa, Canada, Japan, Korea and Dutch Indonesia.

"God Goldfarb" - called him old friends in the US [17] In 1929 D.Petrovsky was transferred to the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy - a member of the Presidium and the Chief of the General Directorate of Higher and Secondary Technical Education (GLAVVTUZ).

[20] From 1930 to 1940, the number of higher and secondary technical colleges and institutions in the Soviet Union grew by 4 times and exceeded 150.

[21] David Petrovsky was aware of the danger emerging in the Soviet Union following the murder of Sergei Kirov in 1934, the assassination functioned as the catalyst for the Great Purge.

[11] In the summer of 1936, his London-born wife Rose Cohen went to London but was not permitted to make the trip with her son Alyosha, so he stayed behind.

Anticipating his fate, he wanted to save D. Petrovsky from the Stalin's terror and understood that he most likely would not return from a business trip.

In March 1937, David Petrovsky was arrested (as the head of the General Directorate of higher and secondary technical education in the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union), and was accused for "counterrevolutionary" activity, and shot on September 10, 1937.

In August 1937, his London-born wife Rose Cohen, a former Comintern courier, was arrested as an alleged British spy, and on November 28, 1937, she was also shot (rehabilitated in the Soviet Union in 1956).

[23] He married Rose Cohen(1894-1937) a British feminist and suffragist, a founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

In 1940 he was adopted from the orphanage by David Petrovsky's cousin Rebecca Belkina, a doctor, and a major of armed forces medical service during the Second World War.

She succeeded in getting permission for Alyosha's adoption when she lived with her family in a political exile in Tobolsk, Siberia under the Article 58 of the Soviet Penal Code.

The most significant works: Honorary cadet of the Moscow Higher Military Command School of the Russian Armed Forces.