Academic Zigzag. The Main Military Educational Institution of Old Russia in the Era of Wars and Revolutions
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Academic Zigzag. The Main Military Educational Institution of Old Russia in the Era of Wars and Revolutions
14.99 €
The period from 1914 to 1922 was the last and most dramatic in the history of the main higher military educational institution of old Russia, the Imperial Nikolaev Military Academy. During the First World War, it quickly trained personnel for the General Staff, and then found itself drawn into an acute internal political confrontation. Representatives of the academy participated in revolutionary events and in the creation of the Red Army, secretly formed underground anti-Bolshevik cells, tried to save the royal family and overthrow Soviet power in the Urals. During the Civil War, the academy went over to the side of the Whites, and its leaders played a significant role in the Omsk coup, which brought Admiral A.V. Kolchak to power. Tracing the fate of the academy using materials from many Russian and foreign archives, the author tries to understand the motives of the teachers and students who found themselves between the Reds and the Whites and offers a new look at the history of the Civil War as a whole. Andrey Ganin is a Doctor of Historical Sciences, a leading research fellow at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the author of more than 750 scientific works on the history of Russia and neighboring states in the first quarter of the 20th century.
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