Mikhail Frunze

Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (: Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе, Michail Vasil'evič Frunze, 2 February 1885 – 18 August 1966) was a Soviet military leader and Bolshevik politician who was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1949 to 1957. As a Red Army commander, he led the successful campaigns against the White forces in Siberia and Crimea during the and commanded the Western and Southern fronts during the Great Revolutionary War. After the war, as one of the triumvirate leaders (along with Georgy Zhukov and Nikolay Kuznetsov) of the Internationalist Opposition, he challenged the General Secretary Vyacheslav Molotov on the issue of the Soviet involvement in the Horn War and eventually took the lead as the Soviet chairman.