BOLSHEVIK AGENTS IN THE BALKANS 1920-1923 - ORGANIZATION, STRUCTURE, PLANS AND PRACTICE Cover Image

BOLJŠEVIČKA AGENTURA NA BALKANU 1920-1923. - TEZE О ORGANIZACIJI, STRUKTURI, PLANOVIMA I PRAKSI
BOLSHEVIK AGENTS IN THE BALKANS 1920-1923 - ORGANIZATION, STRUCTURE, PLANS AND PRACTICE

Author(s): Miroslav Jovanović
Subject(s): Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Security and defense, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), History of Communism
Published by: Institut za savremenu istoriju, Beograd
Keywords: Soviet Russia; Balkans; 1920-1923; Bolshevik agents; organization; structure; plans; practice; communists;

Summary/Abstract: Soviet Russia organized a network of agents from the beginning of its existence in the civil war which lasted from 1918 to 1921. The organization of the Bolshevik agents was controlled by the center of power in Moscow, embodied in the Russian Communist Party (the Bolsheviks), Three basic sub-organizations of the Russian Communist Party, directly involved in forming and organizing the agent network were Tscheka, Voensoviet and the Comintern. The agent organization had a multitude of various units, terrorist groups . .. The center in Moscow regarded the Balkans in the beginning of the twenties as an important factor in the chain of events which would take place during the planned »universal revolution«. With the universal revolution as the final objective, the primary assignment of the Bolshevik agents was to gather and instruct new cadres and to prepare the ground for taking optimal advantage of the anticipated »revolutionary situation« in the entire region when the time came. A detailed plan of action was drawn up for each country, based on the specific goals to be achieved in each country and on the country’s internal state of affairs. Bolshevik agents had two other specific assignments in the Balkans; they were to supervise and control the organization of local communist parties and to spread propaganda and insert themselves among Russian refugees abroad.

  • Issue Year: 1995
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 37-50
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian