Examines conscription and reform in the Russian army. Overview of the problems facing Russia's military conscription policy; Orign and development of the draft; Impact of violence in the enlisted ranks on draft dodging and desertion; Attempts to reform the army....
000 would-be professional contract soldiers in the ranks. The air forces were short some 2,300 pilots. The MOD had 1,300 unneeded military towns on its books costing five billion rules to maintain. Only 21 percent of Russians thought the army could defend the country...
The palace was defended by Cossacks, some junior army officers and the Woman's Battalion. At 9 p.m. The Aurora and the Peter and Paul Fortress began to open fire on the palace. Little damage was done but the action persuaded most of those defending the building to surrender. The Red ...
we had losses, but there were also those who went all this way and came back alive and well. I think only the American army can do something similar.
Grin was in St. Petersburg and a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, distributing propaganda to the Russian Army and Navy. 1906– January 7 – Grinevskaya arrested in liquidation “of combat flying unit of the Socialist-revolutionaries” and imprisoned in Vyborg prison (“Cross”). ...
In these events both Secret Service and Soviet Army was used. However, the Soviet government never talked them as invasions. Either they were support for communist revolutionaries, or they were suppression of Western-supported “counterrevolutions” for the interest of the countryman itself. In the...
the Putinist online troll army, the relevant FSB directorates and offices in the presidential administrations, and the FSB and police agents (bolstered, no doubt, by a handful of true believers) who dress up as “Cossacks,”“members” of the “grassroots”National Liberation Movement (NOD),...
Russian Guard's prestige came from their position of being the monarch's guard. Decades before the Napoleonic Wars the Guard served political functions, prepared nobles to officer rank and provided officers to the army. No guard regiments as such participated in the bloody Seven Years War against...