This book discusses a number of issues concerning the service of the nationalities of the
Caucasus in the Red Army within the context of Soviet nationality policies and an
intensification of repressive tendencies in the USSR's armed forces during World War II. It is
the first study of the role and function of the Caucasian national troops in the Red Army and
of related political debates between state and military leaders of the Caucasian national
republics and USSR. The political aspects of the mobilization of various Caucasian
nationalities in the army and the reasons for the gradual cessation in the course of
1941-1943 of the mobilization in the Red Army of all native nationalities of the Northern and
Southern Caucasus are analyzed in particular. The study is based on documents from the Central
Archive of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation Russian State Archive of Social and
Political History and Russian State War Archive as well as on various memoirs and secondary
sources.(in Russian language)
