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The Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria was the first 20th century
conflict fought between the regular armies of major powers,
employing the most modern means - machine guns, trench warfare,
minefields and telephone communications; and the battle of Mukden
in March 1905 was the largest clash of armies in world history up
to that date. Events were followed by many foreign observers; but
the events of 1914 in Western Europe suggest that not all of them
drew the correct conclusions. For the first time in the West the
armies of this distant but important war are described and
illustrated in detail, with rare photos and the superbly
atmospheric paintings of Russia's leading military illustrator.
The main instrument with which the Bolsheviks imposed communism on
Russia was the Red Army. Traditionally the origins of this army
were among the factory workers who laid down their tools and took
up arms as a way of expressing their grievances. Already formed by
the time of the revolutions of 1905 and February 1917, these
militant workers organised themselves into parliamentary
detachments known as the krasnogvardeytsi, or 'Red Guards'. In this
first of two volumes [see Men-at-Arms 305: White Armies] focusing
on the Russian Civil War (1917-1923), Mikhail Khvostov examines the
Red Army's organisation, weaponry, uniforms and insignia.
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