Revcom [Revcoms]

Commonly known name of the temporary Soviet government emergency agencies, or Revolutionary Committees [Revolutsionnye komitety], that existed during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922 and were vested with all military and civil authority. There was a hierarchy of republican, regional and local revcoms. These agencies were mostly abolished in the European part of Soviet Russia in 1920 but continued until between 1922 and 1925 in the Caucasus, Siberia, the Russian Far East and some Central Asian regions. In some parts of Chechnya, revcoms were even organized after 1925.