Kazan Muslim Infantry Command Courses during the Civil War in Russia 1918-1922
https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2025-18-4-799-814
Abstract
This article unwinds the history of the creation and existence of the Kazan Muslim infantry command courses. These courses represented a rather specific and, in many respects, unique type of military educational institutions designed to train commanders exclusively for Muslim, primarily Tatar, units of the Red Army. During the Civil War in Kazan there were three successive courses for training infantry commanders of Muslims: the first formation of 2 Muslim infantry courses (February 1919 - April 1919), the second formation of courses under the same name (September 1919 - July 1920) and the 16th Muslim courses (October 1920 - January 1923). The history of these military educational institutions is an important page in the study of the formation of the Red Army and in terms of reflecting the specifics of the formation of the national policy of the young Soviet state.
About the Author
D. G. Blinnikov
State Budgetary Institution of Culture “National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Denis G. Blinnikov, Senior Researcher, Department of Material Sources
Kazan
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Blinnikov D.G. Kazan Muslim Infantry Command Courses during the Civil War in Russia 1918-1922. Minbar. Islamic Studies. 2025;18(4):799-814. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2025-18-4-799-814
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