Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy explained

The Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy (Russian: Главное политическое управление Советской армии и Военно-морского флота СССР, Glavnoe politicheskoe upravlenie Sovietskoy armii i Voenno-morskogo flota SSSR) was the central military-political organ of administration in the Soviet Armed Forces in 1919 through 1991 and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The directorate was created at the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on the order of the Republic's Revolutionary Military Council No.674 of 18 April 1919 to implement political control in the Red Army and Fleet.[1] __TOC__

Names and leaders

Revolutionary Military Council (RMC)
Politdepartment and politdirectorate of the Republic's RMC (1919–1922)
  • 31 May 1919 — ?? January 1921 — Ivar Smilga (1892–1937)
  • 3 January 1921 — 13 May 1921 — Vasiliy Solovyov (1890–1939)
  • 13 May 1921 — 9 January 1922 — Sergey Gusev (1874–1933)
Political directorate of the Soviet RMC (1922–1924)
ArmyFleet
Political directorate of the WP Red Army (1924–1940) Political directorate of the WP Red Fleet (1938–1940)
Main directorate of political propaganda of the Red Army (1940–1941) Main directorate of political propaganda of the Soviet Navy (1940–1941)
Main political directorate of the WP Red Army (1941–1946) Main political directorate of the Soviet Navy (1941–1946)
Soviet Armed Forces
Main political directorate of the Soviet Armed Forces (1946–1950)
ArmyFleet
Main political directorate of the Soviet Army (1950–1953) Main political directorate of the Soviet Navy (1950–1953)
Soviet Ministry of Defense
Main political directorate of the Soviet MOD (1953–1958)
Soviet Army and Soviet Navy
Main political directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy (1958–1991)
Soviet Armed Forces
Main military-political directorate of the Soviet Armed Forces (1991)
  • 11 January—29 August 1991 — Nikolay Shlyaga (1935–2004), Colonel General

Educational institutions

Military-political academy

Military-political colleges (higher schools)

See also

Resources

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20210109061453/http://guides.rusarchives.ru/terms/19/6215/politicheskoe-upravlenie-krasnoy-armii Политическое управление Красной Армии
  2. Book: . М. . 1994 . . 2: Вавилония — Гюйс . 176. 5-203-00299-1.