Red army

The article is devoted to the analysis of the military-political crisis in the Tajik SSR in the early 1930s, caused by the activation of illegal armed groups led by Ibrahim Bek. Based on archival materials (OGPU reports, reports of the Red Army command), the article examines the reasons for the revival of the Basmachi movement after its suppression in the 1920s, the tactics of the gangs’ breakthrough into Soviet territory in the spring of 1931 and the USSR’s strategy to eliminate the threat.

The article examines the issues of centralized organization of international military formations during the Civil War on the side of Soviet Russia. Based on archival and previously published documents, the main stages of activity of the Military Commission under the Federation of Foreign Groups of the RCP(b) are studied. Special attention is paid to the work of its member A. Hoffmann in Siberia, where the existing situation required a special approach.

The article presents a general picture of the involvement of human contingents from the Saratov region to recruit the Armed Forces of the USSR on the eve and during the Great Patriotic War. The article highlights in detail the conduct of three waves of the so-called general mobilization of the military in 1941, subsequent party-komsomol and other special mobilizations, as well as the regular conscription of recruits in 1942–1945. The role of the training of military-trained reserves through Vsevobuch, the people’s militia and defense organizations is shown.

The article examines a little-known episode of the Civil War – the activities of the Military Council of the Atkarsk-Rtishchevo fortified region from the moment the fortified area was created on July 19, 1919, until it was disbanded on August 8, 1919. The activities of the Military Council contributed to the repulse of the attack of the Caucasian Army of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia on Saratov. 

The scientific article, based on archival sources and publications of the local press, examines the activities of the Red Army to combat the famine of 1921–1922. The main directions of activity of military units of the Yaroslavl province are studied. The organizational aspects of the activities of the Commission for Famine Relief under the Yaroslavl Provincial Commissariat for Military Affairs are considered. Conclusions are drawn about the participation of the Red Army in the fight against the consequences of hunger. 

The focused on the periodization of the Soviet military construction during the Civil War at an early stage of its development in the first post-war decade

This article is devoted to the problems of organization activities of first commander of chief of west front civil war M. A. Muraviev to creation a regular army forces.