English Translation

The Russian civil war between 1917 and 1921 gave the guerrillas movement a completely new picture and increased importance. At that time, in the back of the White Front, the Kolchak, Vrangel and Denekin armies and the army were in particular. Intervention troops set up groups whose task was to make the march and concentration of the White Army more difficult and to bind parts of this army. The groups consisted of communists, against parts of the Red Army, which were blown up or cut off from their troops. They were the same permanent units and had only in the rarest cases direct connection with the Red Army leadership operating on the front, so that even a transfer of command was almost excluded. These illegal red military troops were generally called guerrilla groups, whereby 16723 The formation of diéser guerrillas took place spontaneously under the leadership of the Communist Party. Through the successes of these groups and their tactics, which benefited greatly from the strategic plan of the leadership of the red troops, this kind of warfare as partisan tactics and part of the general tactics in the use and language of the army of the USSR. has been established with the approval of a considerable proportion at the tactical dispensation of the Red Commanders.