Reliance of the regime: the problem of the protection of the communist government during the civil war

In the first years of Soviet power, various security structures were formed to protect.the existing government. Traditionally, the establishing of such organizations, per se, was assessed as a phased construction of the state, which was naturally in need of the army, police, special service, etc. The author focuses on the difference in the development of these structures in the "Soviet" version, linking it with the emergence of new tasks on the one hand, and the failure in their solution by the already existing structures on the other. The author considers it was appropriate to include commanding courses and soviet-party schools into the emerging system especially at the initial stage of their formation.