Ideological and Political Education and the Combat Training of Troops in the Years of the Great Patriotic War

Abstract

The theory and practice of the communist education and training of personnel in the Soviet army, air force, and navy were born in the austere years of the Civil War and foreign military intervention. Their methodological, ideological, and political principles were elaborated by V. I. Lenin. Lenin's ideas on the education and training of the servicemen of a socialist state have been developed in the decisions of the Communist Party and the Soviet government and in pronouncements by foremost Soviet military leaders M. V. Frunze, M. N. Tukhachevskii, I. P. Uborevich, and others. In resolving everyday, routine problems of troop training, in its congresses and at plenums of its Central Committee, the Communist Party has provided basic principles pertaining to the training and education of personnel that have directed and are directing the theoretical and practical work of commanders [komandiry], political workers [politrabotniki], and researchers in the realm of military pedagogy (see The Communist Party of th...