Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze
| Mikhail Frunze Михаил Фрунзе |
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| People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs | |
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In office 15 January 1925 – 31 October 1925 |
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| Premier | Alexey Rykov |
| Party Aliases | Mikhailov (Миха́йлов) Arsenyev (Арсе́ньев) Trifonych (Три́фоныч) |
| Pen Names | Sergei Petrov (Серге́й Петро́в) A. Shuisky (А. Шу́йский) M. Mirsky (М. Ми́рский) |
| Preceded by | Leon Trotsky |
| Succeeded by | Kliment Voroshilov |
| Candidate member of the 13th Politburo | |
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In office 2 June 1924 – 31 October 1925 |
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze 2 February 1885 Pishpek, Semirechye Oblast, Russian Turkestan, Russian Empire |
| Died | 31 October 1925 (aged 40) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Political party | All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (2 February 1885 – 31 October 1925) was a Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. He was a major Red Army commander in the Russian Civil War and is best known for defeating Baron Wrangel in Crimea.
Frunze was born in Pishpek (present-day Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan), then a small Imperial Russian garrison town in the Kyrgyz part of Russian Turkestan (Semirechye Oblast), to a Romanian para-medic (feldsher) (originally from the Kherson Governorate) and his Russian wife. He began his studies at Verniy (present-day Almaty), and in 1904 he attended the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University. At the Second Congress of the Social Democratic Party Labour Party in London (1903), during the ideological split between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, the two main party leaders, over party tactics (Martov argued for a large party of activists, whilst Lenin wanted a small group of professional revolutionaries with a large fringe group of sympathisers), Frunze sided with Lenin's majority, the so-called Bolsheviks ("majoritarians", opposed to Martov's minority, the Mensheviks or "minoritarians"). Despite the mythology which claims that the Bolsheviks were the minority in the party, actually, the position of majority switched constantly between 1903 and 1917, with the Bolsheviks starting as the majority, the Mensheviks taking the lead in 1905, the Bolsheviks leading again after 1912, until in early 1917 the Mensheviks grew faster than the Bolsheviks thanks to their participation in the coalition government in which the Bolsheviks refused to participate. The decay in the popularity of the selfsame coalition government gave the Bolsheviks a wide majority in the Supreme Soviet, after which they declared it the only governing body, dissolving the bourgeois state.
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