We were not tamed

19,99

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Pavel Fedorovich Karev (1894-?), participant in the First World War, non-commissioned officer. As part of the 2nd company of the Special Infantry Regiment (1st Brigade) of the Russian Expeditionary Force, he was sent to the front in the French province of Champagne, received a certificate from the sniper school in the Chalons-on-Marne camp. His personal observations, recounted in this book, recreate the events that inevitably led to the so-called corruption of the army: conflicts between officers and lower ranks, corporal punishment, low level of medical care, evasion of superiors from participating in battles, sleepless nights in battles under German shelling, news from the motherland about the abdication of the king, the refusal of the Provisional Government to take measures for the return of soldiers to Russia. Karev himself was among the supporters of ending the war - he found himself at the center of the Lacourtine tragedy, when all those who disagreed from among the Russian corps were subjected to artillery fire in order to "tame" them (Camp La Courtine, September 1917). Then Karev, as part of a special military contingent, was sent to North Africa. The author unfolds in detail the picture of the stay of the Russian military there - hard labor, bullying, torture, death. P. Karev's memoirs were first published in 1937. The new edition is supplemented with a preface by Doctor of Historical Sciences A.V. Sazanova and T.G. Borodino.

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Publication language: Russian

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