| Titre | La composition nationale de l'Armée Rouge d'après le recensement de 1920 | |
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| Auteur | S. Maksudov | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 24, no 4, octobre-décembre 1983 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Chronique |
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| Page | 483-492 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Maksudov, The national composition of the Red Army according to the 1920 census.
The 1920 census, as it bears on the composition of the Red Army, contributes an answer to the following question: to whom are the Bolsheviks indebted for their victory in the Civil War? It seems that it is the peasants and the workers of the Central districts of Russia who constituted the bulk of the Red Army. On the other hand, the peoples of the borderlands of the Empire (Ukraine, Bielorussia, Poland, Baltic countries, Transcaucasia, and Central Asia), who constituted practically one half of the Russian population, represented only one tenth of the Red Army troops. Foreign war prisoners (Hungarians, Czechoslovakians, Serbs, Chinese, etc.), who amounted to about 3 million in Russia, in 1917, counted only a few thousand within the Red Army in 1920 and played an even smaller part in the operations.
Such a distribution of the forces of the Russian Empire during the years of the Civil War can be explained by the national interests of the peoples of the borderlands, by the help they received from Western countries, and by a greater receptivity of the Russian population with regard to the main Bolshevik slogans: peace and land. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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