Filipp Mironov

Filipp Mironov in 1919

Filipp Kuzmich Mironov (Russian: Филипп Кузьмич Миронов; 1872–1921) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader during and after the Russian Revolution. He actively supported the idea of democracy in the form of the Soviet Republic, was one of the first commanders in the Red Army. Mironov was commander of the Cavalry Corps and refused to suborrdinate himself to the orders of the Southern Front Command. He had organised a mutiny with 5,000 Red Guards in 1919.[1][2][3]

In response, he was trialled in a military tribunal organised by Trotsky and initially sentenced to death for military insubordination.[4] He was pardoned on the eve of this execution due to the intervention of Trotsky and Lenin, but later re-arrested on charges for conspiring to organise an insurrection against the Soviet government. According to historian Laura Engelstein, the documents do not specify "if the charges had any foundation". Mironov was shot by the Cheka in Moscow.[5]

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  2. ^ Holquist, Peter (1995). A Russian Vendee: The Practice of Revolutionary Politics in the Don Countryside, 1917-1921. Columbia University.
  3. ^ Engelstein, Laura (1 September 2017). Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921. Oxford University Press. p. 484. ISBN 978-0-19-979427-0.
  4. ^ Tarkhova., N.S (1992). Trotsky's train: an unknown page in the history of the Civil War. In The Trotsky reappraisal. Brotherstone, Terence; Dukes, Paul,(eds). Edinburgh University Press. pp. 36, 37. ISBN 978-0-7486-0317-6.
  5. ^ Engelstein, Laura (2018). Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921. Oxford University Press. p. 486. ISBN 978-0-19-979421-8.