Abstract
The conflict between professionals and amateurs is a basic theme in Russian military affairs and hence in the literature of army life; it might even be claimed that it was exacerbated by such literature. Romashov’s protest is against the superficial futility of army life in peacetime; it is not directed at the failings of the Russian military specifically. If we ask why so many Russian writers of the pre-revolutionary period dealt at some length with the military life we are inviting a similar reply: because they lived in Russia. Kuprin was, to a quite remarkable degree, the victim of Russian military institutions. The involvement of Russian writers with the military life was a function of experience, and this is a vital point. Russian literature with a military setting is by no means free from the difficulty, but the teleological problem is certainly far less in evidence.
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