Использование опыта вооруженных конфликтов предвоенного периода в подготовке командно-начальствующего состава для железнодорожных войск РККА (1937–1941 гг.)

Abstract

We consider the issues of organization of Red Army Railway Troops’ Officer Corps training prior to the Great Patriotic War. The relevance of the study comes from insufficient knowledge of military personnel training for Military communication service’s units and Special Railway Troops’ Corps. We study the combat experience and other related factors that have influenced the activities of military educational institutions and military administration in military personnel training. Features of using the various military conflicts’ combat experience in the training process are revealed. Drawbacks in Officer Corps’s training are described in detail. We note the insuffi-cient level of practical training of graduates of railway troops military educational institutions and the separation of learning theory from the troops activities. We draw conclusion about the limita-tions in combat experience education as one of the reasons for the insufficient level of combat readiness in the pre-war period.