Setting up the system of bodies of political work in Red Army (1918-1921)
Practically all actions of the power for building of the new state after October revolution of 1917 were made for the first time in history without use of any experience. The creation of bodies of military management of Red Army during Civil war was not an exeption. For making up morally and politically strong military organisation it was necessary to create a system of work which would provide propagation of ideas of socialism among military men of Red Army, who in the majority belonged to semiliterate peasant mass. Such system was constructed in the form of creation of political bodies at various steps of military hierarchy. In article the author, concerning questions of building of Red Army in the first years of existence of the Soviet power and during Civil war, shows formation of system of political work in the army, and also considers the separate moments of this work in the Belarusian military district. The creation of the named system mattered not only in respect of propagation and planting of ideology of the victorious working class, but, first of all, was directed at realisation of educational functions which were realised in various directions of political and educational work in the army.