Aleksei Brusilov - To All Former Officers

[Guardia Rossa]

Brusilov was torn by conflicting loyalties in the Revolution, and the Civil War that followed. His former soldiers were largely serving in the newly formed Red Army, and he concurred with the need for radical change, but as a conservative, patriot and monarchist his personal values were more in tune with those of the White faction. On 30 May 1920, during the Polish Eastern offensive of the Polish-Soviet War Brusilov published in Pravda an appeal entitled “To All Former Officers, Wherever They Might Be”, encouraging them to forgive past grievances and to join the Red Army.[2]

Does anyone knows where I can find this in English? I am interested to know what would make a conservative, yet ingenious General join the Bolsheviks.

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

Simply, the Bolsheviks being the strongest organized political force in a country on its back foot. It was clear to everyone that Russia had the potential to become a superpower, but it was paralyzed by different ideological visions and class tensions.

[Guardia Rossa]

Savva Timofeyevich Morozov was a Russian businessman and philanthropist.

Influenced by Maxim Gorky he became a significant funder of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party including the newspaper Iskra.

According to the author Suzanne Massie, in Land Of The Firebird, Morozov had approached his mother and family matriarch about introducing profit sharing with factory workers, one of the first industrialists to propose such an idea. His mother angrily removed Savva from the family business and one month later apparently despondent Morozov shot himself while in the south of France.


Ideas?

[Guardia Rossa]

I'm bumping this one last time, my attempts to use Morozov to bump it have failed.

Anyways, unless I edit this post on the contrary, I'm still looking for this text.

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

I'm bumping this one last time, my attempts to use Morozov to bump it have failed.

Anyways, unless I edit this post on the contrary, I'm still looking for this text.

I think it would be fascinating to do an in depth study of important aristocratic and bourgeois class traitors in the communist movement, from Engels, to Kropotkin, to Brusilov. Some of these figures were not communists but attached themselves to Communism out of some other kind of ideological commitment (nationalism in the case of Brusilov), whereas others seemed genuinely concerned with the conditions of the poor (Engels features prominently here)

[Luís Henrique]

I only could find this fragment online (Awakening of Spirits - Eurasianism and Geopolitics in the Foreign Policy of Russia (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63460.pdf)):


At this critical historic point in the lie of out nation, we, your senior comrades in arms, appeal to your love of country and loyalty to it we call to you and ask you to forget all your injuries regardless of who inflicted them on you and where they were inflicted and enlist in the Red Amy voluntarily, eagerly, and with dedication at the front or in the rear. And wherever the government of Soviet Workers and Peasants of Russia might send you, serve not out of fear, but out of conscience, to defend our dear Russia, and with your honest service and not begrudging your life, do not allow Russia to be plundered since it might vanish forever. Then our descendants will rightfully curse us for not using our combat expertise and knowledge, for forgetting our dear Russian people, and ruining our Mother Russia out of selfîsh feelings of class struggle.

It is referenced to General Brusilov, "Appeal To All Former Officers Wherever They Are" (Vozzvaniye. Ko vsem byvshim ofitseram, gde by oni ni nakhodilis)", in Voennoe delo, No. 13, July 7 1920, p. 1.

I suppose that if I was able to read Russian I could find something more; it seems to be an important document.

Luís Henrique