The Bolshevik Military and Battle Organizations () consisted of illegal armed formations (revolutionaries) of

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. They played a leading role among combat detachments of

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and revolutionary instigation in the

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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". The first military and battle organizations were created by Bolsheviks during the

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in bigger cities of the

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, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Kronshtadt,

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and others. The statement of the

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(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) in March of 1918.

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Military Organization of the Bolshevik Party
Encyclopedia of Marxism (www.marxists.org)
Military and Combat Organizations of the Bolsheviks
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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 1918 disestablishments in Russia Organizations established in 1905 Organizations disestablished in 1918 Bolshevik uprisings Military wings of communist parties Communist Party of the Soviet Union Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Organizations of the Russian Revolution of 1905 Defunct communist militant groups Left-wing militant groups in Russia

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