Desertion in the Red Army during the Civil War (based on the materials of the North-West of Russia)

The book is dedicated to the poorly exposed issue of the mass desertion of the Red Army and evading the draft to the Red Army in 1918-1921. For the first time in Russian historiography, the reasons for the phenomenon and mechanisms of combating it, the organization and functioning of commissions to combat desertion, aspects of the daily existence of deserters are comprehensively considered. The Red Army soldiers-Tuguns were an interesting social phenomenon, which influenced both the course of the war and on the daily life of the city and the village. Mass desertion was the common problem of all the warring parties. It was a certain reaction of the population to a global tragedy, one of the survival strategies, "skins"" literally