Communist Party of Foreign Workers and Peasants of Turkestan

The first cells of foreign communists from among the prisoners of war and foreign workers' members of the Communist Party of Turkestan were formed in the summer of 1918 in Tashkent and Samarkand. Most of the members of the communist cell were members of the Tashkent Committee of Foreign Nationals and committees of prisoner of war camps. The creation of the cells was facilitated by representatives of the Federation of Foreign Groups of the RCP (B) who arrived from the Orenburg Front in Tashkent in August 1918.

In August 1918, the organizations of foreign communists united in a communist party (280 people, of which 160 people were members of the Red Army ), which was an integral part of the Turkestan Communist Party. The Provisional Council of the Party is elected.

In December 1918, the 1st regional conference of foreign communists was held in Tashkent. The party has 2,200 members, united in 43 organizations. At the conference, the party’s provisional Charter was approved, the Party’s Regional Committee was elected, which included F. Fagler (chairman), S. Teichner, M. Spitzer and others.

The newspaper of the Kraikom became the newspaper “Freedom of Peoples” (in German, Hungarian, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Romanian).

The work of the regional committee was carried out under the control of the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Federation of Foreign Groups of the RCP (b) .

In March 1918, the 2nd conference of foreign communists was held in Tashkent. The conference represented 3,700 party members united in 14 organizations. The conference adopted the revised Party Charter, elected a new Kraikom (previous G. Freedom).

In April 1919, the Krykom Party carried out party mobilization in the Red Army (about 1 thousand people).

In the summer of 1919, party members were re-registered. Party cleansing carried out.

The 3rd conference of foreign communists was held in Tashkent in October 1919. The conference represented 1,500 party members, united in 24 organizations. He was elected by the krai (chairman J. Gabor).

In December 1919, the party consisted of 2530 members, of which 2240 were members of the Red Army.

In November 1919, at a joint meeting of the Turkikomissni of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, the Kraykom KPT, the Muslim Bureau of the KPT (Musbyuro) and the Kraykom of Foreign Communists, it was decided to merge 3 party centers of the KPT into one, which was done at the 5th conference of the KPT (January 1920). Representatives of foreign communists, G. Freedom, J. Gabor, M. Subhi, were also elected to the Krykom KPT conference.

The work among foreign communists was led by the national agitation and propaganda departments of the local Communist Party committees under the leadership of the national office of the Communist Party Central Committee.

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