The Military Opposition was a group of delegates to the VIII Congress of the RCP (b), held from March 18 to March 23, 1919, who advocated the preservation of

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methods of commanding the army and waging war, against building a regular army, attracting "bourgeois" military specialists, which was being entertained at the time by the

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military commanders. Part of the active figures of the Military Opposition actually opposed the construction of a regular army altogether. The military opposition itself was not a cohesive faction. Its participants argued among themselves on many issues, some of them accepted the theses of the military opposition only partially, continuing to support

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on other issues.

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