Workers and Peasants Red Army ‘General Staff Personalities’ Defecting to the Enemy Side in 1918–1921
Journal: The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
Year: 2013

Abstract 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 re