Bolshevik Military Organizations

Illegal armed formations in the Russian Empire
Bolshevik Military Organizations (from left to right) seated: Kirill Orlov, Konstantin Mekhonoshin, Vladimir Nevsky, Nikolai Podvoisky, Pyotr Dashkevich, Fyodor Raskolnikov; standing up: Boris Zanko, Mikhail Kedrov, Vasiliy Panyushkin, Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov

The Bolshevik Military and Battle Organizations (Russian: Военные и боевые организации большевиков) consisted of illegal armed formations ("revolutionaries") of Bolsheviks (RSDLP(b)) in the Russian Empire. They played a leading role among combat detachments of "working class" and revolutionary instigation in the Russian Armed Forces, with the goal of creation and fortification of the "Revolution Armed Forces".[1] Local committees of the Bolshevik Military Organization was also informally known as "Voyenka".[1]

The first military and battle organizations were created by Bolsheviks during the 1905 Russian Revolution in bigger cities of the Russian Empire: Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Kronshtadt, Sevastopol, Saratov, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Tomsk, Warsaw, Vladivostok, Riga and others.[1] The statement of the 3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (25 April – 10 May, 1905), "About the armed uprising", had a significant meaning in the creation of military organization. [1]

Officially, the Bolshevik Military Organizations were considered to be liquidated on decision of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)[1] in March of 1918.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Sovokin, A.M. Bolshevik Military and Battle Organizations (Военные и боевые организации большевиков). www.booksite.ru.

External links

  • Military Organization of the Bolshevik Party. Encyclopedia of Marxism (www.marxists.org)
  • Military and Combat Organizations of the Bolsheviks. encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com (the Great Soviet Encyclopedia translated version)
  • The 3rd Congress of the Russian SDLP. About the armed uprising (III СЪЕЗД РСДРП. О вооруженном восстании). www.agitclub.ru.
  • V. I. Lenin, I.V. Stalin and L.M. Kaganovich at the All-Russian Conference of the Bolshevik Military Organizations of the Front and Rear (Forces), June 1917. digital.library.pitt.edu (photo)
  • Alexander Rabinowitch. How the Bolsheviks Won. www.jacobinmag.com
  • A Bolshevik appeal finds an echo in the streets. socialistworker.org. June 22, 2017
  • Vasiliy Vasilyev. And our spirit is young (И дух наш молод). "Voyenizdat" (Military publishing). Moscow 1981. (Memoirs, in Russian)