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One of the most impressive buildings of modern design in Moscow (and, indeed, one of the few buildings of modern design in that semi-modern, semi-European city) is the massive plant of the Military Academy named for M. V. Frunze. This academy of advanced military instruction (roughly equivalent to the Command and General Staff College of the United States Army in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) is named for a man who was never graduated from a staff college and who never attended a military academy as a student.
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Mikhail Vasil’evich Frunze, Sobranie sochinenii, (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1926), II, p. 17.
The Army Almanac: A Book of Facts Concerning the Army of the United States (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 344-348.
40 let Voennoi Akademii imeni M. V. Frunze (Moscow: Voennoe izdatel’stvo 1958), p. 126.
Ibid., p. 162.
Ibid., p. 28.
Ibid., p. 33.
Ibid., pp. 33-34. Marshal Tukhachevskii is generally credited with creation of the idea of an international general staff to conduct the military activities of the world proletariat. He put the idea forth in 1920. See Marshall Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevskii, Voina klassov: Stat’i 1919–1920 gg. (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1921), p. 140. Frunze’s 1924 project is not a clear call for an international general staff but rather a plan to create a staff in the Soviet Union which could render help to the international proletariat. The differences in the Frunze and Tukhachevskii plans are small but should be noted. Some authorities consider, as well, that there are some hints of plans for an international general staff of the revolution in Trotsky’s early writings.
Frunze, Izbrannye proizvedeniia (Moscow: Voennoe izdatel’stvo, 1957), II, pp. 163-172.
Frunze, Izbrannye proizvedeniia (Moscow: Voennoe izdatel’stvo, 1950), p. 305.
Frunze, Izbrannye proizvedeniia, 1957, op. cit., III, p. 169.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 171.
See, especially, Lt. Col. F. D. Khrustov, Frunze o voinskom vospitanii (Moscow: Voennoe izdatel’stvo, 1946). Issued in the so-called German Democratic Republic in 1956 as M. W. Frunse zu Fragen der militärischen Erziehung, this brochure was the first number in the Militärwissenschaftliche Aufsätze of the DDR Ministry of National Defense. See, also, Andrei Alekseevich Kosiukov, Voenno-pedagogicheskie vzgliady M. V. Frunze (Moscow: Voennoe izdatel’stvo, 1960).
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Jacobs, W.D. (1969). Inside the Academy and Out. In: Frunze: The Soviet Clausewitz 1885–1925. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9112-8_12
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