Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te pakarutanga o te Russian Revolution i te tau 1917, ka tukuna ia, a, ka hoki ki te kāinga; i te tau 1918, ka uru ia ki te Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) me te Red Army, e mahi ana hei kaiwhawhai. I te wa o te Pakanga Taiao o Ruhia, i mahi ia me te ope Whero i te Russian Far Eastern Republic. Ko tana rangatira i tenei wa ko Kliment Voroshilov, i muri mai he hoa tata o Joseph Stalin me te Komihana a te Iwi mo te paruru. Ko tenei hononga te mea nui ki te mahi a Konev i muri mai, me tana tiaki i te wa o te Whakakore Nui. I roto i ana kōrero, ka tuhituhi ia: "I te taha o tētahi rōpū o ngā hōia kua whakakorehia, i whakaritea e au te whakakorenga o te whakahaere whenua, te whakakahoretanga o te whenua ahuwhenua me te herehere i nga kaihokohoko". I whai wāhi ia ki te tukinga o te 1921
Te whakakeke o Kronstadt.