... his recorded memoirs he pointed to the problem within the Russian Imperial Army that the majority of aristocratic generals and officers neglected their troops and had little understanding, or esprit connection, with the ordinary peasant soldiers. He had been decorated for his bravery, and been wounded too, by March 1917 as the revolution, and change of government, swept away the old monarchist order. His poor ... working class background supported the change for the better and became a member of the Communist Party. Then upon contracting typhus he returned home for convalescence and it ...

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