From the history of organizational party work in the troops of the Soviet eastern front (1918 - 1919)

The military-historical phenomenon of political work in the Red Army was formed, strengthened and established itself during the period of the fratricidal Civil War in Russia, namely at its front-line stage (1918-1920). Organizational party work was one of its main directions. It included issues of internal party life, the organizational structure of the political bodies of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) [RKP(b)] in the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (RKKA), forms and methods of party work in military units, its management and tasks of increasing its effectiveness, as well as issues of the recruitment of the political officer cadres of the Red Army. The author presents to the scientific community a short review of the history of organizational and party work in the troops of the Soviet Eastern Front in 1918-1919. The aim of the article is to reveal the essence and content of organizational party work in the troops of the Soviet Eastern Front, as well as the forms and methods of its implementation. The article represents a fragment of a future monograph, on which the author is completing work.