Mikhail Frunze

Soviet army officer (1885–1925)

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Lived 1885–1925, aged 40
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    Aged 40
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Updated 2026-06-09

A Red Army commander who crushed White forces in Crimea and anarchists in Ukraine during the Civil War, then died on an operating table under circumstances that still point toward Stalin.

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Born in Russian Turkestan in 1885 to a Romanian father and Russian mother, Frunze joined the Bolsheviks after studying at Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University. He led textile strikes during the 1905 Revolution, was sentenced to death, then saw it commuted to hard labor in Siberia — from which he escaped a decade later. He fought in both the February and October Revolutions of 1917, but made his name in the Civil War, delivering decisive victories over Pyotr Wrangel's White Army in Crimea and Nestor Makhno's anarchist movement in Ukraine. By 1921 he sat on the Communist Party Central Commi…

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