Military Revolutionary Committee

Facsimile of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee proclamation of the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government

The Military Revolutionary Committee (Milrevcom) (Russian: Военно-революционный комитет, [Voyennо-revolyutsionny komitet] Error: {{Lang}}: Non-latn text/Latn script subtag mismatch (help)) was the name for military organs created by the Bolsheviks under the soviets in preparation for the October Revolution (October 1917 – March 1918).[1] The committees were powerful directing bodies of revolt, installing and securing the Soviet power. They executed a role of provisional extraordinary organs the Bolshevik power.

The most notable ones were those of the Petrograd Soviet, the Moscow Soviet, and at Stavka. The Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee was created on 29 October [O.S. 16 October] 1917.[2]

  1. ^ Military Revolutionary Committees. Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
  2. ^ Trotsky, Leon, Lessons of October: "On October 16th the Military Revolutionary Committee was created, the legal Soviet organ of insurrection." Accessed 27 August 2007