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Frunze was born in '' (Russian: minority). Two years after the Second Congress, Frunze was an important leader in the 1905 Revolution , at the head of striking Textile workers in Shuya and Ivanovo . Following the disastrous defeat of the revolution at the hands of the Tsar , Frunze was arrested and Sentenced To Death , but he was later reprieved and his sentence was commuted to life at Hard Labour . After ten years in the camps in Siberia , Frunze escaped to Chita , where he became Editor of the Bolshevik weekly newspaper called ''Vostochnoe Obozrenie''. During the February Revolution , an early stage of the 1917 Revolution , Frunze was head of the Minsk civilian Militia before being elected president of the Byelorussian Soviet . He later went to Moscow and led an armed force of workers to aid in the struggle for control of the city. In 1918 Frunze became Military Commissar for the Voznesensk Province. During the early days of the Russian Civil War , Frunze was appointed as head of the Southern Army Group. After defeating Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak and the White Army in Omsk , Leon Trotsky (the head of the Red Army ) gave total command of the Eastern Front to him. Frunze went on to rid his native Turkestan of White troops. In November 1920, Frunze retook the Crimea and managed to push General Pyotr Wrangel and his troops out of Russia. He was also instrumental in the destruction of Nestor Makhno 's Anarchist movement in Ukraine after Makhno refused to merge with the Red Army. In 1921 Frunze was elected to the Central Committee and in January, 1925, became the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council . A strong supporter of Grigory Zinoviev , Frunze came into conflict with Josef Stalin , one of Zinoviev's chief opponents. He supposedly died during a stomach operation of a "chloroform overdose" on 31 October , 1925 , though it is believed by some that Stalin arranged his death. He was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis . MEMORY In 1926, the city of Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan , was renamed ''Frunze'' in his honour. It reverted back to its former name in 1991. Frunze himself is still commemorated in the city, however: a street and a museum in the centre of the city are named after him. The Frunze Military Academy , one of the most respected in the former USSR , was also named in his honour. Also, the honorific title of the Soviet 2nd Rifle Division was at some point the ''2nd Belarusian Red Banner Rifle Division in the name of M.V. Frunze''. A Metro station in Moscow was named Frunzenskaya in his honour, and a stone carving of his likeness stands in one end of the station. In Shuya exist personal museum of Mikhail Frunze. QUOTES "All that we do, every action, should correspond to the highest ideals of the Revolution." "The Red Army was created by the workers and peasants and is lead by the will of the working class. That will is being carried out by the united Communist Party." |
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