The Bolshevik Military and Battle Organizations (russian: Военные и боевые организации большевиков) consisted of illegal armed formations ("revolutionaries") of
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
(RSDLP(b)) in the
Russian Empire
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. They played a leading role among combat detachments of "
working class
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" and revolutionary instigation in the
Russian Armed Forces
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, with the goal of creation and fortification of the "Revolution Armed Forces".
[Sovokin, A.M. ]
Bolshevik Military and Battle Organizations (Военные и боевые организации большевиков)
'. www.booksite.ru. Local committees of the Bolshevik Military Organization was also informally known as "Voyenka".
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The first military and battle organizations were created by Bolsheviks during the ]1905 Russian revolution
The Russian Revolution of 1905,. also known as the First Russian Revolution,. occurred on 22 January 1905, and was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. The mass unrest was directed again ...
in bigger cities of the Russian Empire
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: Saint Petersburg
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, Moscow
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, Ivanovo-Voznesensk
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, Kronshtadt
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...
, Sevastopol
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, Saratov
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, Krasnoyarsk
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, Nizhniy Novgorod
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, Tomsk
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, Warsaw
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, Vladivostok
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, Riga
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and others.[The statement of the ]3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The 3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held during 25 April - 10 May Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="12–27_April_Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S.)1905_in_ O.S.)">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;" ...
(25 April – 10 May, 1905), "About the armed uprising", had a significant meaning in the creation of military organization. [
Officially, the Bolshevik Military Organizations were considered to be liquidated on decision of the ]7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) The 7th (extraordinary) Congress of the RSDLP(b) ( Russian Social Democratic Labor Party), also known as the Extraordinary 7th Congress of the RCP(b) (Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)), was held between 6–8 March 1918. During this congress t ...
[ in March of 1918.
]
See also
* Red Guards (Russia)
, war=The Russian Revolution of 1917 and Russian Civil War
, image=
, caption= Red flags were used by guards in several modifications and variations
, active=1917–1918(became core units of the Red Army)
, ideology=Communism
, position= Far-lef ...
* SR Combat Organization
The Combat Organization (, or the Fighting Organization) was the terrorist branch within the Social Revolutionary Party of Russia. It was a terror sub-group that was given autonomy under that Party. In his memoirs, group member Boris Savinkov c ...
* Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party
The Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party ( pl, Organizacja Bojowa Polskiej Partii Socjalistycznej, abbreviated ''OBPPS''), also translated as Fighting Organization of the Polish Socialist Party; also known as ''bojówki'' ( paramilita ...
* Military Revolutionary Committee
The Military Revolutionary Committee (russian: Военно-революционный комитет, ) was the name for military organs created by the Bolsheviks under the soviets in preparation for the October Revolution (October 1917 – Marc ...
* Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy
References
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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
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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)
1905 establishments in the Russian Empire
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