ДЕВИАЦИИ ОБЛИКА НАЧАЛЬСТВУЮЩЕГО СОСТАВА РККА (ВТОРАЯ ПОЛОВИНА 1920-Х ГГ.)

Abstract

The article examines the suicides of the commanding officers of the Red Army in the second half of the 1920s as a very specific and painful symptom of the breakdown of the old and the formation of a new society in general and the folding of its military-corporate structure in particular. This problem is one of the characteristic and poorly studied indicators of the social and moral characteristics and attitudes of military personnel in the conditions of post-war psychological trauma, radical social transformations, political struggle, new economic policy and the consequences of the "military reform of the USSR". The causes, motives and specifics of the official, material, everyday, value, emotional and even medical conditions of the Red Army servicemen have been identified, systematized and analyzed. Special attention is paid to the commanding staff, including former officers as bearers of military traditions and shortcomings of the old Russian army during the formation of continuity with the Red Army. His office and home psychological microclimate during the period under study was characterized by serious lability and deviations, which adversely affected both the purely military sphere and the general socio-political well-being. The bulk of the sources used are represented by archival documents, which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.