Still, the army remained intact and the majority of troops stayed at the front lines, with rear-echelon units in the Russian interior being more affected by revolutionary sentiment.

[6][7] The Bolsheviks began taking control of the army in November 1917, after the October Revolution, and abolished the officer corps in December 1917.

This began the process of disintegration, but the army did not cease existing at the front until February 1918, when negotiations between Germany and the Bolsheviks broke down.

The Germans did not start transferring divisions from the Eastern Front to the west until the Bolsheviks agreed to an armistice in late 1917.

[9] After Alexander Kerensky became the Minister of War and Navy in the Provisional Government in April 1917, he instituted the Declaration of Soldiers' Rights within the military and appointed commissars.

The Petrograd Soviet did not actively work with its commissars, and the responsibility for overseeing them belonged to Kerensky and a new Political Section at the Ministry of War.