Issue ? 33. August 2012

Red Army Command Staff Training in 1929-1941: Historiography Analysis

Graduate student, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
E-mail: d.k.shumov@gmail.com

The article analyzes the periodization and historiography of command personnel training in the Red Army in the prewar decade. The basis of the principle of periodization is the identification of the main features and trends of each of the chronological phases of the national historiography of the problem.
The author identifies five stages of national historiography, from 1930 to present day. The problem of training of command personnel in the prewar period has a significant number of aspects, which researchers have addressed with varying degrees of intensity. Many of the studies examined by the author only addressed certain aspects of it. The author concludes that the focus of the majority of published Soviet research on the topic is the work of local party organizations, not those of military structures, which led directly to the command personnel training reform.

Keywords

Russian history, the Red Army, military education, historiography, military reform, command staff, internal policy.