18 Okt 1919 Jahr - The Polonsky Conspiracy - polonsky recruits several co-conspirators and sends to Bolsheviks for support. gubkom (red regional committee) set up Lisa of communist cells inside makhnovshina, achievable due to latters tolerance and inclusion of Bolshevik converts

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Thus at the Alexandrovsk congress, the Gubkom succeeded in in-
serting into the staff of the VPS its own member P. Novitsky, who,
it's true, was compelled to “be cautious about expressing his
own
convictions". By October 18 around Polonsky there were already
clustered a group of conspirators occupying responsible posts in the
Insurgent Army. Immediately after the capture of Yekaterinoslav by
the Makhnovists, the Bolsheviks organized an underground revkom
headed by Pavlov who was directing propaganda activities in the city
with the aim of demoralizing its Makhnovist garrison - Lashkevich's
13th Crimean Regiment. Recruitment for the mutiny was carried
on mainly among former Red Army units which had joined the
Insurgent Army. The Makhnovist staff had left the organization and
officer core of these units intact. Thus the soldiers of the regimental
machine gun unit and the English battery were recruited.
At the same time there were ongoing attempts to create under-
ground cells for the coup in other, purely Makhnovist, units. For
this purpose the Gubkom mobilized Communists who had been
liberated by the Makhnovists from the Yekaterinoslav prison. As a
result Communist cells sprouted up in almost all the units, except
Kozhin's machine gun regiment, Shchuss's cavalry regiment, and the
Kontrrazvedka itself.(126) According to the instructions of the Gub-
kom, each cell had to be well informed about all the administrative,
operational, and logistical functions of their units, so they would
be prepared to take over at the appropriate time. 127 According to
the Gubkom's data, in 26 of the Makhnovist regiments the desire
to become part of the RKKA predominated, as well as support for
Bolshevik rule. This is probably a great exaggeration. But all
the same the threat was extreme. According to Miroshevsky "an
illegal army committee was created which was psyched up against
the Batko and frequently sought permission from the Gubkom to
carry out a military coup".

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