Background
MIRONOV, Filipp was born on October 14, 1872 in village Bol’shoy, on the Don. Son of a Cossack.
MIRONOV, Filipp was born on October 14, 1872 in village Bol’shoy, on the Don. Son of a Cossack.
1898 graduate Novocherkassk Cossack Cadet College.
1904-1905 fought in Russo-Japanese War. Arrested for his part in 1905-1907 Revol events in the Don area and after release dishonorably discharged from army. 1914, with the start of World War 1, volunteered for Russian Army and was sent to the front.
Won four military orders and gained rapid promotion. 1917 sided with Maximalist Socialist-Revolutionaries. Elected commander, 32nd Don Cossack Regt.
December 1917 led his regt from the Rumanian Front to Ust’-Medvcditsa Okrug, where he was instrumental in establishing Soviet regime. 1918 Ust’-Mcdveditsa Okrug Committee. His terrorist policies helped spark the anti-Soviet Don revolt.
1918-1919 commanded regt, brigade, then 23rd Infantry Division. Commanded a group of forces of the 9th Army in battles against White General Krasnov. February 1919 transferred to Western Front after vigorously protesting against the Don Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Bureau's policy of “de-Cossackization”.
Assistant commander and 15 May—9 June 1919 commander, Belorussian-Lith Army. June 1919 commanded expeditionary corps on Southern Front. From July 1919 led special Cossack Corps on Southern Front.
August 1919, alarmed at continuing Soviet reprisals against the Cossacks, led his troops against Soviet forces, urging them to fight to “overthrow the Communist Party and save the gains of the revol”. Routed by Budyonny’s Cavalry, arrested and sentenced to death by military tribunal. At Lenin’s instigation, the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Central Committee Political Bureau ordered his release, and the All-Russian Centr ExecComt quashed the sentence.
After this worked as head, Land Department, Don Executive Committee. 6 September—6 December 1920 commanded 2nd Cavalry Army against General Wrangel’s forces. Subsequently inspector of Red Army Cavalry.
February 1921 arrested by Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation.
Religion is a cause of numerous conflicts and bloody wars throughout the history of mankind.
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
Communist Party member from 1920.
