Continuing the Work of A. G. Kaftaradze: the Cadets of the 3rd Stage of Accelerated Cources at the Russian General Staff's Nikolai Academy in Red Army (1918–1930s)

Abstract

Offered to readers an article is, in fact, a logical continuation of last lifetime articles of prominent Russian military historian of second half of the 20th century A. G. Kavtaradze. In these papers, the first time in world historiography considered the official employment of several dozen students of the 1st and 2nd stage of accelerated courses Nicholas General Staff Academy (1916–1918, AGSh). In the last period of the «old Russian Army» (the end of autumn 1917) and the army, which has come to replace it — the Workers ‘and Peasants’ Red Army (June 1918). The author of this article has set itself the following objectives, first, to trace «mysteriously winding» the way the Academy of the General Staff at the end of summer – autumn of 1918, after she by chance was in possession of «white» Komuch. Here the author bases his assumption that the place of employment of the senior class combined 1st and 3rd queue at the end of August 1918 was the city of Yekaterinburg. Thus, in the summer of 1918 Alma Mater of Russian and Soviet General Staff for the specified summer he managed to hold class twice its accelerated courses 3rd line in the same city! Secondly, the specificity of these courses was the fact that 40 out of 70 officers (more than half), before the service in the Red Army, had to serve to “white” parts. Moreover, 7 persons of 70 (exactly 10 %) in the early 1920s had served in the Red Army again. Some of the former students of the third stage of accelerated courses AGSh managed even at a certain stage of the period 1920–1930 years served for the benefit of the punitive system of NKVD.