After the October Revolution, the Order of the Red Banner, established in 1918, was the only Soviet decoration available to reward military personnel for their actions in the Russian Civil War. Instead of awarding the Order of the Red Banner, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) gave Sergey Kamenev and Vasily Shorin what it described as "weapons with the badge of the Order of the Red Banner" on 8 August 1919 in recognition of their victories on the Eastern Front against the White forces of Alexander Kolchak. The award consisted of a sword ("shashka") that had a badge of the Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR superimposed on a gilt hilt. It was reminiscent of the Saint George Sword given to senior commanders of the Russian Empire during World War I, and thus represented an unacknowledged return to the Tsarist award system. Semyon Budyonny and Mikhail Tukhachevsky received the award later that year.