ABSTRACT
The work of the Military Commission could be utilised to justify the impending changes. At the October plenum of the Central Committee in 1923 M. V. Frunze had already burst out with views of the rapid deterioration of the Red Army and its unfitness for any combat role. Frunze delivered himself of a very searching criticism of the whole Soviet military structure. There was, Frimze argued, ample evidence from the preparatory work done in the autumn enquiry, to show that neither the supply side nor the organisational aspects of the Red Army were in a fit state to be used in a major war. A little later A. Bubnov and K. E. Voroshilov joined this body, together with Aleksander Ilyich Yegorov and others un-named. The mandate of the commission was to investigate the instability of the personnel of the Red Army and to look into the state of military supply; one month was allowed for the investigation.
