Lieutenant General Fedor Ogorodnikov’s Letters to Major General Mikhail Bonch-Bruyevich on the Situation on the Northern Front of the Russian Civil War in 1918 as a Source on the Service of Imperial Staff Officers in the Red Army Cover Image

Listy gen. lejt. Fedora Ogorodnikowa do gen. mjr. Michaiła Boncza-Brujewicza o sytuacji na froncie północnym rosyjskiej wojny domowej w 1918 r. jako źródło do zagadnienia służby carskich sztabowców w Armii Czerwonej
Lieutenant General Fedor Ogorodnikov’s Letters to Major General Mikhail Bonch-Bruyevich on the Situation on the Northern Front of the Russian Civil War in 1918 as a Source on the Service of Imperial Staff Officers in the Red Army

Author(s): Rafał Igielski
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Military history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne im. gen. broni Kazimierza Sosnkowskiego
Keywords: Russian Civil War;Allied intervention in Russia;imperial military specialists;Red Army;Fedor Ogorodnikov;Mikhail Bonch-Bruyevich

Summary/Abstract: In the spring of 1918, Allied military contingents landed in northern Russia. To command the hastily organized Red Army forces opposing them, the Bolsheviks employed former imperial generals. The source analysed in this article con-sists of four letters from Lieutenant General Fedor Ogorodnikov to Major General Mikhail Bonch-Bruyevich. These letters address a range of issues and concerns re-lated to the formation of Soviet armed forces and the difficulties encountered by professional senior staff officers in cooperating with Communists.

  • Issue Year: XXVII/2026
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 75-100
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish
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