Soviet military officers

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armed forces personnel military rank group social group

Soviet military officers were members of the armed forces of the Soviet Union, ranging from junior commanders to high-ranking generals, who played central roles in the Red Army’s organization, strategy, and political control.

Aliases (2)

Red Army officers ×2
Soviet Generals ×1

Statements (99)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	armed forces personnel → military rank group → social group →
awardedDecoration	Hero of the Soviet Union → Order of Alexander Nevsky → Order of Kutuzov → Order of Lenin → Order of Suvorov → Order of the Red Banner → Order of the Red Star →
countryOfService	Soviet Union →
endOfExistence	1991 →
governedBy	Communist Party of the Soviet Union → General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR → Ministry of Defense of the USSR →
hadOathTo	Communist Party → Soviet people → Soviet state →
hadPoliticalSupervisionBy	Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy →
hadPurgeEvent	Great Purge →
hadPurgePeakYear	1937 → 1938 →
hadRankStructureBasedOn	Imperial Russian Army ranks →
hadRankStructureReformedIn	1940 → 1955 →
ideology	Marxism–Leninism → communism →
includedRank	army general → captain → colonel → colonel general → lieutenant → lieutenant colonel → lieutenant general → major → major general → marshal of the Soviet Union → senior lieutenant →
notableConflictParticipation	Great Patriotic War → Hungarian Revolution of 1956 → Korean War → Prague Spring intervention → Russian Civil War → Sino–Soviet border conflict → Soviet–Afghan War → Winter War → World War II →
notableDoctrine	combined arms warfare → deep operation → nuclear deterrence → operational art →
notableMember	Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Boris Shaposhnikov → Dmitry Yazov → Georgy Zhukov → Ivan Bagramyan → Ivan Konev → Kliment Voroshilov → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Leonid Brezhnev → Mikhail Tukhachevsky → Nikolai Ogarkov → Pavel Batov → Rodion Malinovsky → Semyon Timoshenko → Sergei Akhromeyev → Vasily Chuikov →
partOf	Armed Forces of the Soviet Union → KGB troops → Soviet Air Defense Forces → Soviet Air Forces → Soviet Army → Soviet Internal Troops → Soviet Navy → Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces →
politicalRequirement	adherence to party line → loyalty to the CPSU →
requiredMembership	Communist Party of the Soviet Union →
requiredOrganization	Komsomol →
selectionMethod	conscription-based promotion from enlisted ranks → graduation from military academies →
subjectTo	party control → political commissars → state security surveillance →
subordinateTo	Politburo of the CPSU → Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR →
succeededBy	Russian military officers → Ukrainian military officers → military officers of post-Soviet states →
timePeriod	1922–1991 →
trainingInstitution	Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy → Frunze Military Academy → Gagarin Air Force Academy → Kuznetsov Naval Academy → Voroshilov General Staff Academy →
usedLanguage	Russian →
usedScript	Cyrillic →
woreInsigniaType	collar tabs → shoulder boards →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Stalinist repressions ("Red Army officers") →	appliesToPopulation
Soviet High Command ("Soviet Generals") →	commandedBy
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky ("Red Army officers") →	eligibility
Great Purge →	targetedGroup