Everything about Stalin In The Russian Civil War totally explained
From May
1918 to August
1920, the future leader of the
Soviet Union Joseph Stalin was employed, with only brief gaps, as a military
political commissar on various fronts in the
Russian Civil War. He was a participant in the defense of
Petrograd, and in the
Battle for Tsaritsyn, where according to Soviet legend, Stalin saved the day. In honor of his actions Tsaritsyn was renamed
Stalingrad ("Stalin City"). He was sent to investigate the Red forces’ reversals at
Perm (although he was not, as some Stalinist historians claim, the author of the
Perm Report.) Stalin was also blamed for the defeat of Red forces in the
Polish-Soviet War.
During this period, while supporting centralized control in principle, Stalin considered himself entitled to call for more men and
materiel for his own Front. He also waged an unrelenting war against the “
military specialists”— former
Tsarist professional military officers— and collected about himself a group of like-minded
Bolshevik military leaders, the "Tsaritsyn group," a nucleus of party members personally loyal to Stalin.
Stalin would later be accused by his fellow-Bolshevik rival
Leon Trotsky of seeking to build his own reputation by victories on his own front at the expense of operations elsewhere.
In a
Pravda interview given just before he left for
Kharkov, Stalin said:
"When we've talked of the chances of Russia's victory and have said that those chances are growing and will grow still further, it doesn't follow that victory is already in our pocket... victory can only have real meaning in conditions where our forces are properly organized, where they're supplied regularly and accurately, where our agitators are able to spread burning enthusiasm among the troops, where our rear is cleansed of filth and corruption and where it's consolidated both morally and materially. . . ."
Footnotes
- Pravda, 26 May 1920.
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