Volkov Sergei

Promotion of officers from military colleges and schools of ensigns in the years of World War I (analysis quantitative data)

Abstract

In the years of World War I in Russia 24 military colleges and 49 schools of ensigns of land forces worked. Data on promotion of officers on each from these military schools are provided in article, allowing visually to present not he general quantitative indices of training of officers in military schools in the years of World War I, but also to track dynamics of this process. The personal accounting of officers on the basis of primary materials - orders on promotion allowed to establish that in military colleges not less than 92 thousand officers, and at schools of ensigns - about 140 thousand were prepared, that is it is significantly more, than it was considered to be (about 80 thousand and about 110 thousand)

Keywords

World War I, Russian offi cers, military colleges, schools of ensigns

References

1. Volkov S. V. 2011 “Pervaja mirovaja vojna i russkij oficerskij korpus” (The First World War and Russian Officer Corps), in Vestnik PSTGU. Serija II. Istorija. Istorija Russkoj Pravoslavnoj Cerkvi, 2011, vol. 1/38, p. 112.
2. Demeter K. The German Officer Corps in Society and State, 1650–1945, London, 1965.

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Volkov Sergei