THE CONTINUITY OF DESERTION PROBLEM: FROM THE IMPERIAL ARMY TO THE RED ARMY, 1914–1921

In this article the process of desertion problem growing during the First World
War and the Civil War in Russia is examined. War weariness, the need to adapt within
the crucial years made an escape from the army and an evasion the call-up a tactic
of survival of millions. The article presents both the typological similarity of deserters
of two wars and the policy of the authorities directed to stop a desertion.