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A COLLECTION of online records, "Documents from the Archives of the Russian Foreign Ministry: The 1917 Revolution: The Fate of Russian and Soviet Diplomacy" [Dokumenty arkhivov MID Rossii. Revolyutsiya 1917 goda: Sudby russkoi i sovetskoi diplomatii] has become available on the Foreign Ministry's official website for all Internet users. Chronologically, it covers the period of the formation of the Soviet state from 1917 until 1922.1 The digitization of archival materials is not the ministry's first experience of this kind.
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158506
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Massive recent archival releases by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation promise to revolutionize the historiography of the Soviet-German War, 1941–1945. Hitherto, heavily censored Soviet books and articles concealed much of the detail concerning how and why the Red Army operated as it did during wartime. Although these sources revealed considerable detail concerning the Red Army’s wartime military successes, they contained precious little about less-successful or clearly unsuccessful operations or numbers and figures related to the strength and losses of Red Army forces. This forced historians studying the war to rely heavily on German source materials or to ‘read between the lines’ while interpreting existing Soviet books and articles about the war. As the details in the following article indicate, this situation has drastically changed for the better, while doing so necessitating a thorough re-evaluation of the performance of the Soviet Union’s Red Army during its so-called Great Patriotic War.
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The history of the Red Army in the Civil War of 1918-1922, in its significant part, was a history of mass treason and desertion of thousands of former officers (military specialists). Among them there were hundreds of General Staff specialists, the real representatives of Soviet military elite, whose treason was extremely dangerous for the fate of Soviet Russia. The treasons were both individual and group when the whole Soviet staffs fled to the Whites. Among the defectors there were representatives of almost all staff and command levels including several army commanders. These specialists of high qualification with academic background were aware of Soviet war plans, mobilization questions, and other classified data and could issue harmful orders before their defection to the enemy and influence the situation on the front. This article describes the reasons, history, circumstances, and results of this process that remained widespread until the decisive victories of the Reds in 1920. According to the calculations by Andrey Ganin, based on the vast, previously unknown data from Russian archives, almost every third General Staff specialist deserted the Red Army during that war. In spite of this, Bolsheviks managed to unite the experience of the military professionals with the new administrative methods and 'with iron and blood' organized powerful and effective military force which finally gained victory in the Civil War.
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