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Committee for Military and Naval Affairs


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COMMITTEE FOR MILITARY AND NAVAL AFFAIRS, the first Central Soviet Armed Forces Administration. Established at the second All-Russian Congress of Soviets on 26 October (8 September) 1917, and quartered at Smolny. Committee members included V. A. Antonov-Ovseenko, N. V. Krylenko, and P. E. Dybenko. On October 27 (November 9), it took on the affiliation of representatives of the Military Organisation of the Central Committee and Petrograd Committee of Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Bolshevik Party and the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee (N. I. Podvoysky, V. N. Vasilyevsky, K. S. Eremeev, P. E. Lazimir, B. V. Legrand, K. A. Mekhonoshin, E. M. Sklyansky), and the Committee was renamed the Soviet of People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs. The Committee (Soviet) was in charge of demobilising the old army and creating a new army; it exercised control over the Ministry of defence and the Naval Ministry, and authority over the front-line army. In mid November 1917, with the creation of the College for Peoples' Commissars for Military Affairs and the Supreme Naval College, the Soviet ceased to exist.

References: Кляцкин С. М. На защите Октября: Организация регуляр. армии и милицион. стр-во в Сов. Республике, 1917-1920. М.,1965.

A. M. Kulegin.

Persons
Antonov-Ovseenko Vladimir Alexeevich
Dybenko Pavel Efimovich
Eremeev Konstantin Stepanovich
Krylenko Nikolay Vasilievich
Lazimir Pavel Evgenievich
Legrand B.V.
Mekhonoshin Konstantin Alexandrovich
Podvoysky Nikolay Ilyich
Sklyansky Efraim Markovich
Vasilyevsky V.N.

Bibliographies
Кляцкин С. М. На защите Октября: Организация регуляр. армии и милицион. стр-во в Сов. республике, 1917-1920. М., 1965