Officers in the Central Committees of Fleets and Flotillas between 1917 and 1918

2017

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, Vol 19, Iss 3(166), Pp 85-96 (2017)

This article focuses on the activities and destinies of the officers who were part of the central committees of the Navy during the Revolution of 1917, and the initial stages of the Civil War. The research is based on the prosopographic method, and the author creates a special database. A wide range of historical sources and literature is used to reconstruct the biographies of officers. The study of the public activities of officers in 1917 is based on the analysis of published and archival official records, supplemented by memoirs. The study demonstrates that the representatives of the command personnel took a number of leading positions in the structure of the committees, and a number of officers were engaged in extensive social and political activity. Young people prevailed among the officers-delegates, and career officers accounted for two-thirds of the total number. Among the persons in question, there were many officers of the Admiralty, occupying the lowest ranks in the hierarchy of naval officers. The reasons for the command staff participation in the work of committees may be as follows: the desire to adapt to the new situation and realise their political views; careerism; an officer’s duty is a desire for electoral institutions to work properly and to prevent the navy from disintegration.

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Russian

Ural Federal University Press, 2017.

Революция 1917 г., флот, демократизация вооруженных сил, офицеры, комитеты, просопография., History (General) and history of Europe, Language and Literature