Red Guards (Russia)
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Red Guards (
Overview
Composing the majority of the urban population, they were the main strike force of several radically oriented socialist political factions. Red Guard units were created in March 1917 at manufacturing companies by
The lack is not in the "new motives", esteemed Manilovs, but in the military force, in the military force of revolutionary people (not people in general) that stands 1) in the armed proletariat and peasantry, 2) in the organized frontline formations out of representatives of those classes, 3) in the ready to side with people military formations. Taken all together, this is a revolutionary army.
— Vladimir Lenin, "Last word of "Iskra" tactics..."[1]
A number of other militarized formations created during the
Creation
On March 26, 1917, the
Red Guards were the base for the forming of the Red Army. Therefore, the term is often used as just another English name for the Red Army in reference to the times of the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War.
In
Organization
During the revolution, training of the Red Guards was arranged by the Military Organization of the RSDLP (Bolshevik Military Organizations).
Enlistment was voluntary, but required recommendations from
References
Further reading
- Martynovich Dune, Eduard (1993). Koenker, Diane; Smith, Stephen Anthony (eds.). Notes of a Red Guard. Translated by Smith, Stephen Anthony. ISBN 978-0-252-06277-3.
- ISBN 0-8047-1167-4.
- Price, M. Phillips (1921). My Reminiscences of the Russian Revolution. London: G. Allen & Unwin.
- First-person accounts of the revolution
- Beatty, Bessie (1918). The Red Heart of Russia. New York: Century.
- Williams, Albert Rhys (1921). Through the Russian Revolution. New York: Boni and Liveright.
- Plaskov, Grigoriy (1969). Under the roar of the cannonade (in Russian). Voenizdat.