“The Red Army was created by the workers and peasants and is led by the will of the working class. That will is being carried out by the united Communist Party.”
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Mikhail Frunze
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist.
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politics · Soviet army officer (1885–1925) · diplomat · military personnel · politician · also Mikhail Frunze, Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze, Cdr Mikhail Vasilevich Frunze, Frunze
Born 21 January 1885 · Died 31 October 1925 · Q191882
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2026· 3 entries
“All that we do, every action, should correspond to the highest ideals of the Revolution.”
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“At present I am feeling absolutely healthy, and it seems ridiculous to even think of, and even more-so to undergo an operation. Nevertheless, both party representatives are requiring it.”
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2016· 1 entry
It was renamed to its current name to comply with decommunization laws
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1960· 1 entry
And noted that, while both he and Frunze witnessed Turkish atrocities against Greeks, both had a limited ability to intervene
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1931· 1 entry
Was named Frunzenets ("Frunzeist", follower of Frunze) after him
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1926· 1 entry
The capital city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, was renamed Frunze in his honour
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1925· 4 entries
Died 1925-10-31.
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From chloroform poisoning during surgery for a chronic ulcer
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Was named chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council
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Career landmark: People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs (1925–1925).
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1924· 1 entry
Career landmark: Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1924–1925).
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1921· 2 entries
Frunze was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party
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Frunze was elected to the Central Committee of the Russian Bolshevik Party
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1918· 1 entry
As Military Commissar for the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Province
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1907· 1 entry
And sentenced to death; he was imprisoned and spent several months on death row awaiting his execution
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1904· 1 entry
Attended the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University
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1885· 2 entries
Born 1885-01-21.
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In Pishpek (now Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan), then a small Imperial Russian garrison town in the Kyrgyz part of Russian Turkestan (Semirechye Oblast)
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