Revolution and war. Collection of the fourth and fifth, 1921 Military-scientific journal.

Revolution and war. Collection of the fourth and fifth, 1921 Military-scientific journal.
Smolensk. Printing house of the publishing department of UVUZZAP, 1921. - 214 p., maps and diagrams in the text, 2 incl. with maps. Circulation of 5,000 copies. Publisher's cover, enlarged format (16.5 x 25 cm). The cover is worn and dirty, has tears, losses, including on the spine; the pages are very agitated; the title page and the table of contents are duplicated.

In the issue of the work of N. Kakurin "On the way to Warsaw" and M. Tukhachevsky "The First Army in 1918".

[Nikolai Yevgenyevich Kakurin (September 4, 1883, Orel — July 29, 1936, Yaroslavl) was a Russian and Soviet military commander , a "military expert", a prominent military publicist, historian and teacher.

In March 1918, after the German invasion, he voluntarily joined the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic (he was engaged in the organization of the army) and was appointed Assistant Chief of the General Staff. In June 1918, he was appointed to the same post of the Armed Forces of the Hetmanate. After the Directory came to power, which deposed the hetman, Kakurin left his post. But soon he was appointed assistant Chief of staff of the Kholm-Galician Front. During this period, he met Alexander Shapoval (an activist of the Socialist-Independent Party), who began to provide him with protection. Having taken the post of Minister of War of the UPR, Shapoval appointed Kakurin to the post of assistant Minister. Then he served in the Ukrainian Galician Army as the chief of staff of one of the corps.

Later he found himself in Moscow, where he was arrested for serving with the Petliurists, but released under the patronage of Tukhachevsky and in February 1920 joined the Red Army. During the Soviet-Polish War of 1920, the chief of Staff of the Tambov Rifle Division, commanded the 10th Rifle Division from 01.08.1920 to 16.10.1920, served as the commander of the 4th Army, was the commander of the 3rd Army and assistant to the commander of the Western Front. In 1921, as the chief of staff of the Tambov Group of Troops, he simultaneously commanded a combined cavalry group that took part in the defeat of the Antonov region. In particular, as the chief of staff signed the famous order No. 0116 of June 12, 1921 on the use of toxic substances against insurgents hiding in the forest.

Nikolai Yevgenyevich ended the Civil War in Central Asia. In March-September 1922-commander of the troops of the Bukhara-Ferghana region, participated in the liquidation of Basmachi gangs.

Author of about 30 works on strategy, operational art and tactics of the Civil War, training and education of troops.

One of the initiators of the creation and author of the three-volume history of the Civil War (published in 1928-1930).

Since 1922, he was reported to the OGPU by his cousin O. A. Zayonchkovskaya, whom he trusted. On August 19, 1930, he was arrested and on February 19, 1932, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was held in the Yaroslavl prison, where he died at the end of July 1936.]