Simbirsk department of the “Union of the Revival of Russia”: genesis, ideology, political activity

Abstract

In July 1918, one of the first military formations of the Whites, the Komuch People's Army, as well as Czechoslovak volunteers who joined them, occupied the Middle Volga city of Simbirsk with battles, practically marking the beginning of a full-scale civil war in Soviet Russia. Later, power in the city was transferred to the Committee of Members of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly (Komuch), which began to restore pre-revolutionary governing bodies in it. One of the politicalforces that appeared in the summer of 1918 in Simbirsk was the Union of the Revival of Russia. The article discusses the ideological and political platform of this organization, the positions of the leaders of the “Union”, the results of participation in the elections to the City Duma of Simbirsk.