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Honestly i dont want to over praise him. But he did oversee the reorganisation of the red army, turning it from a looser structure with elected officers into a professional force, reincorporated the tsarist elements and introduced the political officers to keep the former whites in the armed force under communist control. You basically can't read anything about the red army or the Russian civil war without running into that part.
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Without over praising him either, I can see how such organizational changes could prove very beneficial during the first period of the Soviet government when facing threats from multiple sides