place_of_death vitaly primakov
The Bolsheviks , originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki ( derived from  " ___MASK66___ ' shinstvo ", " majority ", literally meaning " one of the majority ") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( RSDLP ) which ___MASK75___ apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903 . The RSDLP was a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898 in ___MASK7___ ( ___MASK98___ ) to unite the various revolutionary organisations of the Russian Empire into one party . ___MASK6___ ( Russian SFSR or RSFSR ; ), commonly known as , was a sovereign state in 1917  22 and 1991 - 93 , the largest , ___MASK14___ populous , and ___MASK14___ economically developed republic of the Soviet Union in 1922  91 and a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with its own legislation in 1990  91 . The Republic comprised sixteen autonomous republics , five autonomous oblasts , ten autonomous okrugs , six krais , and forty oblasts . Russians formed the largest ethnic group . The capital of the Russian SFSR was ___MASK99___ and the other major urban centers included Leningrad , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . The Soviet Armed Forces , also called the Armed Forces of the ___MASK77___ of Soviet Socialist Republics and Armed Forces of the Soviet ___MASK77___ ( Russian :       " Vooruzhonnyye Sily Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik ",     ) refers to the armed forces of the Russian SFSR ( 1917  1922 ), and Soviet ___MASK77___ ( 1922  1991 ) from their beginnings in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War to its dissolution in December 1991 . The Workers ' and Peasants ' Red Army (: RKKA , frequently shortened in Russian to ; KA , in English : Red Army also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch - Red Horde , Army of Work ) was the army and the air force of the ___MASK6___ , and after 1922 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . The army was established immediately after the 1917 October Revolution ( Red October or Bolshevik Revolution ). The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations ( especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army ) of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War . Beginning in February 1946 , the Red Army , along with the Soviet Navy , embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces ; taking the official name of " Soviet Army ", until its dissolution in December 1991 . The Soviet Navy ( literally " Military Maritime ___MASK19___ of the USSR ") was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces . Often referred to as the Red ___MASK19___ , the Soviet Navy was a large part of the Soviet ___MASK77___ ' s strategic plan in the event of a conflict with the United States , the ___MASK85___ Treaty Organization ( NATO ), or another conflict related to the ___MASK23___ Pact . The influence of the Soviet Navy played a large role in the Cold War , as the majority of conflicts centered on naval forces . Vitaliy Markovich Primakov ( Russian :    ; Ukrainian :    ) ( December 3 , 1897 -- June 12 , 1937 ) was a Ukrainian red cossack , commander of the Red Cossacks corps , and part of the Red Army . The Russian Civil War was a multi - party war in the former ___MASK76___ immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917 , as many factions vied to determine Russia ' s political future . The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army , fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism , and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army , which included diverse interests favoring monarchism , capitalism and alternative forms of socialism , each with democratic and antidemocratic variants . In addition , rival militant socialists and nonideological Green armies fought against both the Bolsheviks and the Whites . Eight foreign nations intervened against the Red Army , notably the Allied Forces and the pro - German armies . The Red Army defeated the White Armed Forces of South Russia in ___MASK30___ and the army led by Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak in Siberia in 1919 . The remains of the White forces commanded by Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel were beaten in Crimea and evacuated in late 1920 . Lesser battles of the war continued on the periphery for two more years , and minor skirmishes with the remnants of the White forces in the Far East continued well into 1923 . Armed national resistance in Central ___MASK17___ was not completely crushed until 1934 . There were an estimated 7 , 000 , 000 - 12 , 000 , 000 casualties during the war , mostly civilians . The Russian Civil War has been described by some as the greatest national catastrophe that Europe had yet seen .