Revolutionary Military committee

The revolutionary Military committee , so known under the name Milrevcom (, ВРК), was the name of the military bodies of the Soviets for the period of the Russian Révolution and the Russian Civil war (the most significant Soviets being those of Petrograd, Moscow, and Stavka).

These committees were in charge of the preparation and the realization of the Révolution with October, then control of the army. The revolutionary Military committee of the Soviet of Petrograd was created on October 16th, 1917 (in the Calendrier Julien).

The proclamation of the dissolution of the Provisional government of Russia, entitled “For the citizens of Russia”, was signed by the revolutionary Military committee of Petrograd and was dated “10 hours, October 25th, 1917”.

It is read as follows:

“the provisional government was deposited. The capacity of the State passed in the hands of the body of the Soviet of the working deputies and delegated soldiers of Petrograd - the revolutionary Military committee, which directs the proletariat of Petrograd and the garrison.

the cause for which the people fought, namely the immediate offer of a democratic peace, the abolition of the land ownership, the control of the workers about the production, and the establishment of the Soviet capacity, this cause was obtained. Live the revolution of the workers, soldiers and peasants!

For the citizens of Russia”

In the Lessons of October, Trotsky affirms that the Soviet of Petrograd primarily entered a state of Insurrection armed before October 25th: “As from the moment when us, the Soviet of Petrograd, planes invalidated the order of Kerensky to transfer two thirds from the garrison to the face, we had really entered a state of armed insurrection… the results of the insurrection of October 25th were at least with the three regulated quarters”. The order of Kerensky was returned little from time after the Bolsheviks obtained a majority in the Soviet of Petrograd (Trotsky was elected by it president on September 26th). The Soviet estimated that Kerensky tried to remove the leaning revolutionist of the troops, which followed the directives of the Soviet, and to replace them by others which would not be opposed to its orders.

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