A circular Letter from the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, or How They Did Not Let the War End
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Venkov Andrey V.
Doctor of Science (History), Professor, Professor, Chief Researcher, Federal research center “Southern scientific center of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (SSC RAS), 41, Pr. Chekhova, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia; Professor, Institute of History and International Relations, Southern Federal University, 105/42, Bolshaya Sadovaya St., Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia.
andrey_venk@rambler.ru
Abstract. The article suggests that a well–known document, a Circular letter from the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party dated January 24, 1919, was an attempt by a certain part of the Bolshevik leadership to disrupt the “people’s diplomacy” conducted between the White Cossacks and the Red Army units of the local formation. The Bolsheviks were alarmed by the information that the Red Army units, after defeating the Cossacks, would start a war against the Communists, so the Bolsheviks tried to carry out a policy of terror against the Cossacks with the hands of the Red Army units.
Keywords: cossacks, peasants, the policy of terror, the organization of power
For citation: Venkov A.V. A Circular Letter from the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, or How They Did Not Let the War End, in Novoe Proshloe / The New Past. 2025. No. 2. Pp. 38–55. DOI 10.18522/2500-3224-2025-2-38-55.
The article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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