Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy

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Kombrig Leonid Brezhnev (right) giving a Communist Party membership card to a soldier (1942)

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]

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 — (1890—1939)
  • 13 May 1921 — 9 January 1922 — Sergey Gusev (1874—1933)
Political directorate of the Soviet RMC (1922—1924)
Army Fleet
Political directorate of the WP Red Army (1924—1940)

Political directorate of the WP Red Fleet (1938—1940)

  • January —June 1938 — Mikhail Shaposhnikov (1899—1938), Corps Commissar[2]
  • 21 June 1938 — ?? May 1939 — Ivan Nadyoshin (1900—1958), Brigade Commissar[2]
  • ?? May 1939 — ?? August 1940 — Ivan Rogov (1899—1949),
Main directorate of political propaganda of the Red Army (1940—1941) Main directorate of political propaganda of the Soviet Navy (1940—1941)
  • ?? August 1940 — 22 July 1941 — Ivan Rogov,
Main political directorate of the WP Red Army (1941—1946)
  • 16 July 1941 — 12 June 1942 — Lev Mekhlis, Corps Commissar (с 04.06.1942)
  • 12 June 1942 — 10 May 1945 — Aleksandr Shcherbakov (1901—1945), Colonel General
  • 8 September 1945 — ?? February 1946 — (1906—1973), Colonel General
 Main political directorate of the Soviet Navy (1941—1946)
  • 22 July 1941 — ?? February 1946 — Ivan Rogov, Colonel General
Soviet Armed Forces
Main political directorate of the Soviet Armed Forces (1946—1950)
  • ?? February 1946 — ?? February 1949 — , Colonel General
  • ?? February 1949 — ?? February 1950 — (1904—1979), Colonel General
Army Fleet
Main political directorate of the Soviet Army (1950—1953)
  • February—March 1950 — , Colonel General
  • March—July 1950 — , (1902—1975), Colonel General
  • ?? July 1950 — ?? April 1953 — , Colonel General
 Main political directorate of the Soviet Navy (1950—1953)
  • ?? March 1950 — 6 March 1953 — (1906—1986), Admiral
  • June—16 March 1953 — Leonid Brezhnev (1906—1982), Major General
Soviet Ministry of Defense
Main political directorate of the Soviet MOD (1953—1958)
  • ?? April 1953 — ?? January 1958 — (1904—1991), Colonel General
  • January 1958 — 25 April 1958 — Filipp Golikov (1900—1980), Colonel General
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 — (1935—2004), Colonel General

Educational institutions[]

Military-political academy[]

Military-political colleges (higher schools)[]

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References[]

  1. ^ Политическое управление Красной Армии. Центральный государственный архив Советской армии. В двух томах. Том 1. Путеводитель. 1991
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Военная энциклопедия: В 8 томах. 2: Вавилония — Гюйс. М.: . Пред. Гл. ред. комиссии . 1994. p. 176. ISBN 5-203-00299-1.

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