Подготовка командных кадров РККА в первые годы становления советской власти (1917–1924)

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to analyze the activities of the party, state and military governing bodies of the Soviet state aimed at training command personnel for the newly formed class army. The problems of creating a network of military educational institutions in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 have been considered in the article. It has been shown the main stages of formation and development of the system of military personnel training in the first years after the formation of the Soviet state. The characteristic features of formation of the Main Directorate of Military Educational Institutions as the main body for creation, management and provision of military educational institutions have been highlighted and described in the article. Its role in training and education of command personnel for the Red Army is revealed. The author gives a generalized characteristic of workers and peasants who entered military educational institutions. Different types of military educational institutions created at different stages of the civil war and foreign military intervention, their number and qualitative differences have been shown in this work. The author has revealed the trends of their development and analyzed their contribution to the command personnel training. The author of the work paid considerable attention to the participation of former generals and officers of the old army in training and education of command staff for the Red Army.The motivation measures taken by the leadership of the Soviet state in order to attract highly trained officers and generals to this task are considered. At the end of the article the author summarizes the results of the reseach and draws definite conclusions. It has been determined that the Soviet government successfully solved the task of training command personnel in a fairly short time, graduating commanders from military educational institutions who were in no way inferior in training to officers of the "white" armies and Entente troops.