Background
EYDEMAN, Robert was born on May 9, 1895 in village Leyastsiem, Valga Uyezd, now Latin Soviet Socialist Republic. Son of a teacher.
EYDEMAN, Robert was born on May 9, 1895 in village Leyastsiem, Valga Uyezd, now Latin Soviet Socialist Republic. Son of a teacher.
High school; from 1914 studied at Petrograd Forestry Institute. Attended Kiev Infantry College. Course at Higher Military Academy of German General Staff.
October 1916 sent as ensign to 16th Siberian Infantry Reserve Regt at Kansk. While still a student at Petrograd Forestry Institute joined "Union of Maximalist Socialist-Revolutionaries” and subsequently, while serving with his regt, carried out revol work among troops. After 1917 February Revol elected chairman, Regt Committee.
April 1917 became chairman, Kansk Soviet of Soldiers’ Deputy and deputy chairman. Joint Kansk Soviet of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers’ Deputy. October 1917 elected deputy chairman, Siberian Executive Committee.
January 1918 deleg to 3rd All-Russian Congress of Soviets, where he was elected member, All-Russian Ccntr Executive Committee. 1918, together with other Maximalists who favored with All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) program, admitted to Communist Party membership. In view of his revol services and active support of the Bolsheviks, the Party Central Committee, after 14th Congress backdated his Party record to March 1917.
Spring 1918, helped direct West Siberian Military Staff. Then commanded 1st Siberian (Partisan) Army. On Eastern Front until late 1918 as commander of 2nd Ural, then 3rd Ural Division.
From January 1919 on Southern and Southwestern Fronts, commanding 16th Kikvidze, 41st and 46th Division and then the Right-Bank Forces Group (Kakhov Bridgehead). 1921-1924 deputy commander, Ukraine and Crimean forces. 1924-1925 commander, Siberian Military district.
1925-1932 commandant and comissar, Frunze Military Academy. 1932-1935 member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Revol Military Council. From 1935 member, Military Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Defense.
From March 1932 chairman, Centr Council of Social for Promoting Defense, Aviation and Chemical Constr, with rank of army commander. From 1929 member. Section for Studying Military Problems, Communist Academy, and head of its history sub-section. Member, editorial board, milit journals.
Company-ed, Istoriya grazhdanskoy voyny (History of the Civil War) and Sovetskaya voyennaya entsiklopediya (Soviet Military Encyclopedia). One of foremost Soviet military writers. Member, Soviet Writers’ Union and head of its Latin Section.
Works translated into Russian, Ukraine, German and other languages. Delegation 14th, 16th and 17thCPSU(B) Congresses and 15th and 16th All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Conferences. Often elected member, and in 1935 Presidium member, All-Russian Ccntr Executive Committee.
1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. PuM: military.
Number religious basis is needed in order to display ethical behavior.
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 1917.