THE DATABASE "LIFE TRAJECTORIES OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY OFFICERS IN 1914-1922": INFORMATION POTENTIAL AND FIRST RESULTS OF PROCESSING

The article defines the possibilities of electronic prosopo-graphic database for multidimensional study of biographies of officers of the Russian Imperial army in 1914-1922. The author formed a sample of socio-professional data on more than 1.5 thousand oficers of the garrisons of Voronezh, Kursk, T...

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Main Author: V. Kanishchev
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Published: North-Caucasus Federal University 2021-09-01
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description The article defines the possibilities of electronic prosopo-graphic database for multidimensional study of biographies of officers of the Russian Imperial army in 1914-1922. The author formed a sample of socio-professional data on more than 1.5 thousand oficers of the garrisons of Voronezh, Kursk, Tambov provinces in 1914 and changes in their lives and careers during the First World War, the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil war. The analysis of indicators of age, social class, national-religious, educational structure, career movement of the studied cohort of oficers for 1914 in comparison with the socio-professional appearance of the entire Russian oficer corps, has shown the typical character of this cohort, the legitimacy of formulating broad conclusions, provisions and generalizations based on the results of its analysis. The first results of database processing show that in terms of age in the studied garrisons, as well as in the army as a whole, middle-aged oficers predominated. There were relatively few young oficers in the cohort, but a relatively large number of age commanders (over 50 years old) who were not physically quite ready for the coming war. It is established that the class composition of oficers of the garrisons of the Voronezh, Kursk, Tambov provinces in 1914 was typical of the apparent predominance of the nobility. But still a third of this group of oficers came from other estates. The author revealed that about 90% of the members of the studied cohort were Slavs of the Orthodox confession. Small but notable groups were Catholic poles and Lutheran Germans. According to the data on education it turned out typical for the Russian oficer corps of the early XX century approximate equality of graduates of military and cadet schools, close to the all-Russian proportion of of-icers who received military academic education. For career advancement of oficers of the studied sample, as well as all oficers of peacetime, was characterized by a relatively slow receipt of ranks and awards. Only about 100 officers of the cohort participated in the Russian-Turkish war of 18771878, the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905, other military campaigns of Russia in the late XIX - early XX century most of the oficers had to gain combat experience during the First World War.
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spelling doaj-art-bc8909a266954f108e56d0c7a3875dc12024-12-16T07:19:31ZrusNorth-Caucasus Federal UniversityГуманитарные и юридические исследования2409-10302021-09-01047883108THE DATABASE "LIFE TRAJECTORIES OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY OFFICERS IN 1914-1922": INFORMATION POTENTIAL AND FIRST RESULTS OF PROCESSINGV. Kanishchev0Tambov State University named after G.R. DerzhavinThe article defines the possibilities of electronic prosopo-graphic database for multidimensional study of biographies of officers of the Russian Imperial army in 1914-1922. The author formed a sample of socio-professional data on more than 1.5 thousand oficers of the garrisons of Voronezh, Kursk, Tambov provinces in 1914 and changes in their lives and careers during the First World War, the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil war. The analysis of indicators of age, social class, national-religious, educational structure, career movement of the studied cohort of oficers for 1914 in comparison with the socio-professional appearance of the entire Russian oficer corps, has shown the typical character of this cohort, the legitimacy of formulating broad conclusions, provisions and generalizations based on the results of its analysis. The first results of database processing show that in terms of age in the studied garrisons, as well as in the army as a whole, middle-aged oficers predominated. There were relatively few young oficers in the cohort, but a relatively large number of age commanders (over 50 years old) who were not physically quite ready for the coming war. It is established that the class composition of oficers of the garrisons of the Voronezh, Kursk, Tambov provinces in 1914 was typical of the apparent predominance of the nobility. But still a third of this group of oficers came from other estates. The author revealed that about 90% of the members of the studied cohort were Slavs of the Orthodox confession. Small but notable groups were Catholic poles and Lutheran Germans. According to the data on education it turned out typical for the Russian oficer corps of the early XX century approximate equality of graduates of military and cadet schools, close to the all-Russian proportion of of-icers who received military academic education. For career advancement of oficers of the studied sample, as well as all oficers of peacetime, was characterized by a relatively slow receipt of ranks and awards. Only about 100 officers of the cohort participated in the Russian-Turkish war of 18771878, the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905, other military campaigns of Russia in the late XIX - early XX century most of the oficers had to gain combat experience during the First World War.https://humanitieslaw.ncfu.ru/jour/article/view/109officersprosopographyhistorical informaticsdatabases
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THE DATABASE "LIFE TRAJECTORIES OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY OFFICERS IN 1914-1922": INFORMATION POTENTIAL AND FIRST RESULTS OF PROCESSING
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования
officers
prosopography
historical informatics
databases
title THE DATABASE "LIFE TRAJECTORIES OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY OFFICERS IN 1914-1922": INFORMATION POTENTIAL AND FIRST RESULTS OF PROCESSING
title_full THE DATABASE "LIFE TRAJECTORIES OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY OFFICERS IN 1914-1922": INFORMATION POTENTIAL AND FIRST RESULTS OF PROCESSING
title_fullStr THE DATABASE "LIFE TRAJECTORIES OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY OFFICERS IN 1914-1922": INFORMATION POTENTIAL AND FIRST RESULTS OF PROCESSING
title_full_unstemmed THE DATABASE "LIFE TRAJECTORIES OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY OFFICERS IN 1914-1922": INFORMATION POTENTIAL AND FIRST RESULTS OF PROCESSING
title_short THE DATABASE "LIFE TRAJECTORIES OF THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY OFFICERS IN 1914-1922": INFORMATION POTENTIAL AND FIRST RESULTS OF PROCESSING
title_sort database life trajectories of the russian imperial army officers in 1914 1922 information potential and first results of processing
topic officers
prosopography
historical informatics
databases
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