The red army during the Russian civil war, 1918–1920: The main results of the august 1920 military census

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 800-808
Author(s):  
Steven J. Main
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
Red Army

The former chief of P. N. Wrangel’ staff P. S. Makhrov on the Red Army campaign to Western Ukraine and Western Belarus in 1939

2020 ◽  
pp. 461-471
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Ganin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
World War ◽  
General Staff ◽  
Red Army ◽  
Western Ukraine ◽  
Southern Russia

The memoirs of general P. S. Makhrov are devoted to the events of 1939 and the campaign of the Red army in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. Pyotr Semyonovich Makhrov was a General staff officer, participant of the Russian-Japanese war, World War I, and the Russian Civil war. In 1918, Makhrov lived in Ukraine, and in 1919-1920 he took part in the White movement in Southern Russia, after which he emigrated. In exile he lived in France, where he wrote his extensive memoirs. The events of September 1939 could not pass past his attention. At that time, the Red army committed approach in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. Contrary to the widespread Anti-Sovietism among the white emigrants, Makhrov perceived the incident with enthusiasm as a return of Russia to its ancestral lands occupied by the Poles.

Polish-Soviet War: Cossack units

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.В. Венков
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
Military Experience ◽  
Red Army

Донское казачество, имея довольно сложный полиэтничный состав, пополнялось в том числе и поляками или выходцами с территории Речи Посполитой. Особо охотно в ряды казаков принимались польские дворяне, имеющие военные навыки, но бывали среди принятых и польские мещане и крестьяне. Несколько казачьих родов на Дону имеет польское происхождение. Когда началась советско-польская война, были случаи перехода казаков из Красной армии на сторону польских войск. Самое большое количество переходов приходится на 1920 г. Однако среди казаков, перешедших на сторону поляков, не прослеживаются потомки польских казачьих родов. Переходы из Красной армии на сторону поляков было продолжение гражданской войны казаков против большевиков. The Don Cossack Host, historically sustaining a complex polyethnic character, included Poles or expats from Rzeczpospolita. The Cossacks showed a predisposition towards the recruitment of Polish nobles — due to the latter’s military experience. Yet there were also cases of Polish townsfolk and peasants being accepted into the Cossack Host. Several Don Cossack families had Polish roots. With the start of the Soviet-Polish War, there were several cases of Cossacks deserting the Red Army and joining the Polish forces. The greatest number of such cases was in 1920. Yet among the Cossack deserters that joined the Poles, we find no descendants of the Polish Cossack families. For the Cossacks in question, switching sides and joining the Poles was seen as a continuation of the Russian Civil War and the fight against the Bolsheviksviks.

scholarly journals „Czerwona konnica”. Stan organizacyjny kawalerii RKKA od połowy lat 30. do momentu wybuchu wojny niemiecko-sowieckiej w czerwcu 1941 r.

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-71
Author(s):  
Aleksander Smoliński ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Red Army

The cavalry of the Workers ’and Peasants ’Red Army was an important component, meant mostly for offensive purposes. As a result, for the whole period from the end of Russian Civil War to the outbreak of German-Soviet war in June 1941 work was being done on the development of its large units, like brigades, divisions and corps – and even mounted armies. Ways to use them on a modern battlefield were searched for, in order to for them to cooperate with modern mechanized and armoured formations. That is why the author, based on archival sources and plentiful subject literaturemainly Russian, presented its state of organization and size, as well as the changes which occurred in the second half of the 1930’s and on the eve of the Great Patriotic War from 1941–1945.

scholarly journals Vladimir Strekopytov. The Rebel Commander

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-391
Author(s):  
N. N. Zhuravlev
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
The North ◽  
Red Army ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
North Western

The article explores of the life and work of one participant in the White movement, Vladimir Strekopytov. Born in Tula and a staff captain in World War I, in March 1919 Strekopytov led the anti-Bolshevik uprising of the Red Army in Gomel. For a long time, the events of the Gomel anti-Bolshevik uprising, known as the “Strekopytovsky rebellion”, remained a little-known and unexplored event of the Civil War. Despite the fact that, in the first years of Soviet power, a number of publications based on recollections of participants in those dramatic events had come out, many facts related to the uprising remained outside the scope of study. The scantiest information has been preserved about the leader of the insurgents: the name by which the uprising entered historiography, and the mention that he was a former officer. The real name of the leader of the Gomel uprising became known thanks to researchers from Estonia, who opened an investigation into participants of the Gomel uprising at the end of the last century. In the history of Russian Civil War, the Tula detachment that he led made an unprecedented defection from the Red Army to the White Army. He made his way from Gomel, through Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic states and joined the North-Western Army under General Yudenitch. After the disbandment of the North-Western Army in February 1920, he headed the Tula workers’ artel in Estonia, in which he gathered former members of his detachment. Vladimir Strekopytov lived in exile in Estonia and was engaged in social activities. After the unification of Estonia with the USSR, he was arrested by the NKVD in 1940 and executed in April 1941.

scholarly journals A Civil War Episode: General Mamontov in Tambov, August 1919

2002 ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Erik-C. Landis
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
Front Line ◽  
The South ◽  
Red Army ◽  
The Town

“Up until the 14th of August 1919, despite the number of military fronts connected with the civil war, for us in Kozlov, everything was more or less calm, at least, as calm as it gets behind the front lines.” These words introduce a brief set of reminiscences, published in the local Communist Party newspaper, Our Truth (Nasha Pravda), in the town of Kozlov, located in the central Russian province of Tambov. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of one of the most brutal episodes of the Russian civil war to take place in the province, namely “Mamantov’s Raid,” in which a force of Don Cossack cavalry, active in the anti-Bolshevik struggle in the south of Russia, advanced deep into Soviet territory, disrupting vital Red Army supply and communications links with the front line.

scholarly journals The Russian Red Cross in the Civil War

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-François Fayet
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Red Army ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Political Associations ◽  
Set Up

Based on Russian and non-Russian materials, this article examines the history of the Russian Red Cross Society during the Civil War. The ascension of the Bolsheviks to power led to the breakup of the Russian Red Cross Society (RRCS) into a multitude of national and political associations, each claiming its material and symbolic heritage. When the Civil War began, these fragments of the RRCS no longer existed as effective sanitary organisations. But in autumn 1918, as epidemics threatened troops and civil populations alike, RC institutions had to be set up again urgently. In view of their experience and infrastructure, the Moscow, Omsk, and Kiev RC organisations quickly became decisive players in the Civil War with the Red Army and the White armies of Kolchak, Denikin, and Wrangel. In many fields, these RC organisations acted as a substitute for the state. They were responsible for nursing, nutrition, and evacuation. On the external front, the material assets of the former RRC had to be recovered, Russian soldiers arrested abroad assisted, and the exclusivity of the RC emblem defended. In conclusion, this article argues that the Russian Civil War was a dramatic theatre of modern humanitarian action for the entire international RC movement (the International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies) in terms of the practices and laws that had to be invented. Given its fragmentary nature, the mix of identity, social, and ideological conflicts, the civilian populations in the foreground, and the intermingling of national and international players, the Russian Civil War was a forerunner of the “new wars” of the late twentieth century.

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