Revolutionary committees were often created in anticipation of the advances of the Red Army. In some cases they were created in places remote from the intended place of action, as was the case with the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee. In other cases they were created underground from local populations under the guidance of Bolsheviks, subsequently organizing an insurgency and then inviting the Red Army for help, as in the case of the Azerbaijani Revkom, which seized power in Baku when English troops were evacuated and then asked Moscow for help.
Some revkoms were successful, while others were not.
There were different levels of revkoms, according to the administrative divisions: republican, inherited from the Russian Empire (guberniya, uyezd, volost), and at the grassroots level rural revkoms.
According to the decree of VTsIK (central Soviet legislative body), On Revolutionary Committees (October 24, 1919), there were three major types of revkoms:
in areas taken over by the Red Army
in front areas
in rear areas
In most territories all lower level revkoms were abolished by January 1920, with some exceptions:
revolutionary, committee, soviet, this, article, includes, list, references, related, reading, external, links, sources, remain, unclear, because, lacks, inline, citations, please, help, improve, this, article, introducing, more, precise, citations, 2016, lear. This article includes a list of references related reading or external links but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations May 2016 Learn how and when to remove this message A revolutionary committee or revkom Russian Revolyucionnyj komitet revkom were Bolshevik led organizations in Soviet Russia and other Soviet republics established to serve as provisional governments and temporary Soviet administrations in territories under the control of the Red Army in 1918 1920 during the Russian Civil War and foreign military intervention The forms of their work were inherited from Military Revolutionary Committees of the Russian Revolution of 1917 The name was borrowed from the history of the French Revolution where comites revolutionnaires were created the superior ones being the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security Revolutionary committees were often created in anticipation of the advances of the Red Army In some cases they were created in places remote from the intended place of action as was the case with the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee In other cases they were created underground from local populations under the guidance of Bolsheviks subsequently organizing an insurgency and then inviting the Red Army for help as in the case of the Azerbaijani Revkom which seized power in Baku when English troops were evacuated and then asked Moscow for help Some revkoms were successful while others were not There were different levels of revkoms according to the administrative divisions republican inherited from the Russian Empire guberniya uyezd volost and at the grassroots level rural revkoms According to the decree of VTsIK central Soviet legislative body On Revolutionary Committees October 24 1919 there were three major types of revkoms in areas taken over by the Red Army in front areas in rear areas In most territories all lower level revkoms were abolished by January 1920 with some exceptions in 1920 in Arkhangelsk guberniya February April in Volga Germans area February in Central Asia Ukraine Kuban Belarus Dagestan Azerbaijan in 1921 Armenia Georgia in Siberia Siberian Revkom Sibrevkom existed until 1925 See also editPoor Peasants CommitteeReferences editGreat Soviet Encyclopedia Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Revolutionary committee Soviet amp oldid 1068315170, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
