Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin basasa na Rasha, Bogdanov ya shiga Red Army a Petrograd a watan Yuni 1918. An nada shi kwamandan kwamandan a cikin 4th Kostroma Regiment, kuma daga Afrilu 1919 ya umurci kamfani na 2nd Reserve Regiment. Daga Janairu 1920 ya yi aiki a matsayin kwamandan kamfani da kwamandan bataliya na 502nd Rifle Regiment na 56th Rifle Division, yana yaƙi a cikin Yakin Poland da Soviet a yaƙe-yaƙe a Vitebsk, Minsk, da Vilna Governorates. Don "jaruntakarsa ta musamman a yaƙi", an ba Bogdanov lambar yabo ta Red Banner. Ya koma 2nd Reserve Regiment don ya jagoranci wani rukuni a watan Oktoba 1920 kuma a watan Janairun 1921 ya koma ya jagoranci kamfani a 40th Kostroma Infantry Courses for Command Personnel. Tsakanin 10 ga Mayu da 20 ga Yuli, ya shiga cikin murkushe Tashin Tambov
a matsayin kwamandan kamfani da kwamandan battalion kuma mai kula da shugabancin.