Mikhail Frunze
1885 – 1925 Russian Red Army commander and military reformer
The Red Army commander who replaced Trotsky, dead in a suspicious operation.
- Religion
- Russian Orthodox background; a militant atheist.
- Affiliations
- Bolshevik Party; a leading Red Army commander who succeeded Trotsky as head of the military.
Frunze was a civil war commander who defeated White and other forces in the south and Central Asia. He replaced Trotsky as head of the Soviet military and began reforming it. He died in 1925 during surgery that some suspected Stalin had arranged.
Connections
- associate of Joseph Stalin — His death under the surgeon's knife was long rumored to be Stalin's doing.
- successor of Leon Trotsky — Replaced Trotsky as head of the Soviet armed forces.