Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist.
24 Facts About Mikhail Frunze
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Mikhail Frunze 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.
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Mikhail Frunze escaped ten years later and took active part in the 1917 February Revolution in Minsk and the October Revolution in Moscow.
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Mikhail 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.
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In 1921, Mikhail Frunze was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
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Mikhail Frunze's health failing due to a chronic ulcer, Frunze died in 1925 during surgery and received a burial in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
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Mikhail Frunze was born in 1885 in Pishpek, then a small Imperial Russian garrison town in the Kyrgyz part of Russian Turkestan.
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Mikhail Frunze's father was a Bessarabian Romanian para-medic and his mother was Russian.
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Mikhail Frunze began his higher studies at Verniy, and in 1904 he attended the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University.
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Mikhail Frunze became active in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
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Two years after the Second Congress, Mikhail Frunze became an important leader in the 1905 Revolution.
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Mikhail Frunze led striking textile workers in Shuya and Ivanovo.
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Mikhail Frunze's sentence was commuted to life at hard labour.
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Mikhail Frunze later went to Moscow and led an armed force of workers to aid in the struggle for control of the city.
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Mikhail Frunze drove out Basmachi insurgents and White Army troops from his native Turkestan.
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Mikhail Frunze captured Khiva in February and Bukhara in September 1920.
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In November 1920, Mikhail Frunze's army took the Crimea and managed to push White general Pyotr Wrangel and his troops out of Russia.
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In 1921, Mikhail Frunze was elected to the Central Committee of the Russian Bolshevik Party.
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Mikhail Frunze had been noted among communist leaders as possessing a very creative and almost unorthodox view on matters of implementation and policy.
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Mikhail Frunze gained the respect and admiration of his comrades thanks to his successful pursuit of complicated military objectives, and his endurance during the period when the Communist party was illegal.
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Mikhail Frunze had been considered as a potential successor to Lenin, due to his strength in both theoretical and practical matters of advancing the Communist party agenda, and his seeming lack of personal ambition separate from the party.
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Mikhail Frunze is still commemorated in the city: his equestrian statue stands in front of the main railway station.
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General Mikhail Frunze is honoured with a place right behind Ataturk, in the Monument of the Republic, located at the heart of Taksim Square, in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Mikhail Frunze emphasizes Frunze's concept of Marxist military tactics, which strongly influenced Soviet military organization.