Translations from Russian

This is the fourth chapter in A Soldier’s Duty, the memoir of Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (1896-1968), who commanded troops from the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War to the final days of the defeat of Nazi Germany. Rokossovksy was an ethnic Pole who served in the Russian army in World … Read more

This is the third chapter in A Soldier’s Duty, the memoir of Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (1896-1968), who commanded troops from the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War to the final days of the defeat of Nazi Germany. Rokossovksy was an ethnic Pole who served in the Russian army in World … Read more

The first Russian revolution ended in defeat. In the ten years between the first and second revolutions, the bolsheviks heroically and persistently organized the masses, instilling them with revolutionary spirit, and guiding them in the struggle toward eventual victory.

This is the second chapter in A Soldier’s Duty, the memoir of Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (1896-1968), who commanded troops from the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War to the final days of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Chapter 2 covers Stalin’s exploits after escaping from exile in 1904 to the 1905 Russian revolution and the fifth party congress in April 1907.