[The only edition of the article by the outstanding Marshal Shaposhnikov.] Revolution and war. Collection of the ...

[The only edition of the article by the outstanding Marshal Shaposhnikov.] Revolution and war. Collection of the sixth and seventh, 1921 Military-scientific journal.
Smolensk. Printing house of the publishing department of UWUZZAP, 1921. - 190 p., maps and diagrams in the text, 2 incl. Circulation of 5,000 copies. Publisher's cover, enlarged format (17 x 25 cm). The cover is worn and dirty, has tears, losses, including on the spine; the covers of the binding are bent, the pages are very agitated; library attributes.

The collection includes an unsigned article "Cavalry in the Civil War" by the outstanding military theorist and tactician B. M. Shaposhnikov.

[Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov (September 20 [October 2] 1882, Zlatoust, Ufa Province, Russian Empire — March 26, 1945, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet military commander, military and statesman, and military theorist. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1940).

He made a significant contribution to the theory and practice of building the Armed Forces of the USSR, to their strengthening and improvement, and to the training of military personnel. He worked hard and successfully on the development of military science, on the generalization of the combat experience of the First World War and the Civil War. He participated in the commission for the development of the Red Army statutes, reflecting in them the main provisions of the military doctrine of the USSR. In the most famous work "The Brain of the Army" defined the main provisions about the nature of the future war, deeply revealed the features of the leadership of the army in the war and gave a clear idea of the role, functions and structure of the General Staff as a body of the Supreme High Command for the management of the Armed Forces. The correctness of his conclusions was confirmed by the Great Patriotic War. Shaposhnikov is noted in military history as an outstanding military theorist, a talented practitioner, well-versed in operational and strategic issues. However, the very name "Brain of the army" Shaposhnikov borrowed from the English journalist and military theorist of the late XIX — early XX century Spencer Wilkinson.

He enjoyed great respect for I. V. Stalin, was one of the few to whom Stalin addressed by name and patronymic, and not "comrade Shaposhnikov", as to the absolute majority of the leaders of the country and the army. From the late 1930s, he was one of Stalin's chief military advisers.

Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army at the first stage of the Great Patriotic War (from July 1941 to May 1942), member of the Supreme Command Headquarters (from July 1941 to February 1945).]