Open Access„Czerwona konnica”. Stan organizacyjny kawalerii RKKA od połowy lat 30. do momentu wybuchu wojny niemiecko-sowieckiej w czerwcu 1941 r.
Author(s) -
Aleksander Smoliński
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ur journal of humanities and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2543-8379
DOI - 10.15584/johass.2020.4.4
Subject(s) - offensive , battlefield , spanish civil war , german , state (computer science) , history , world war ii , law , political science , ancient history , engineering , operations research , archaeology , computer science , algorithm
The cavalry of the Workers ’and Peasants ’Red Army was an important component, meant mostly for offensive purposes. As a result, for the whole period from the end of Russian Civil War to the outbreak of German-Soviet war in June 1941 work was being done on the development of its large units, like brigades, divisions and corps – and even mounted armies. Ways to use them on a modern battlefield were searched for, in order to for them to cooperate with modern mechanized and armoured formations. That is why the author, based on archival sources and plentiful subject literaturemainly Russian, presented its state of organization and size, as well as the changes which occurred in the second half of the 1930’s and on the eve of the Great Patriotic War from 1941–1945.