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Mikhail Frunze
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Soviet army officer (1885–1925)
Mikhail Frunze was a Soviet military commander and strategist who played a key role in organizing the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and afterward. His work modernizing Soviet military doctrine and strategy made him one of the most influential military figures in early Soviet history, though his sudden death in 1925 cut short a promising career.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mikhail
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Bishkek
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- diplomat
- Political party
- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolshevik)
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Participant in
- 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party
- Conflict
- Siege of Perekop
- Military branch
- Red Army
- Military rank
- general
- Image
- Michaił Frunze.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mikhail Frunze
- date of birth
- 1885-01-21
- date of death
- 1925-10-31
- place of burial
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
- Commons gallery
- Mikhail Frunze
- place of detention
- Vladimir Central Prison
- cause of death
- chloroform
- allegiance
- Soviet Union
- ethnic group
- Russians
- name in native language
- Михаил Фрунзе
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Encyclopedic overview
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (Russian: Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе; Romanian: Mihail Frunză; 2 February 1885 – 31 October 1925) was a Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist.
Born to a Romanian father and a Russian mother in Russian Turkestan, Frunze attended the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University and became an active member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). Following the RSDLP ideological split, he sided with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction. He led the textile workers strike in Ivanovo during the 1905 Russian Revolution, for which he was later sentenced to death before being commuted to life-long hard labour in Siberia. He escaped ten years later and took active part in the 1917 February Revolution in Minsk and the October Revolution in Moscow. Frunze distinguished himself as one of the most successful Red Army commanders during the Russian Civil War, achieving major victories over the White Army of Pyotr Wrangel in Crimea and Nestor Makhno's anarchist movement in Ukraine. In 1921, Frunze was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party. In 1925, he was named chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council.
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