Publisher's Synopsis
The book is devoted to the little-investigated issue of the massive desertion of Red Army soldiers and evasion of conscription into the Red Army in 1918-1921. In it, for the first time in domestic historiography, the causes of the phenomenon and the mechanisms for combating it, the organization and functioning of the Commissions on the fight against desertion, aspects of the daily existence of deserters. Red Army men - "runners" were An interesting social phenomenon that influenced both the course of the war and the daily life of the city and village. Mass desertion was a common problem for all belligerents. It was a specific response of the population to the global tragedy, one of the strategies of survival, "skimming" in the literal sense of the word.
