Labor army
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The notion of the Labor army (трудовая армия, трудармия) was introduced in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War in 1920. Initially the term was applied to regiments of Red Army transferred from military activity to labor activity, such as logging, coal mining, firewood stocking, etc.[1]
History
The first labor army (1я Трудармия, 1-я армия труда) was created after the defeat of
He argued further that "army-type organization is in fact inherently Soviet type of organization".[3]
His critics argued that this idea was leading back to the times of
By the end of the
Nazi Germany
In Nazi Germany, the Reich Labour Service was established to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. It was the official state labour service, divided into separate sections for men and women.
Later Soviet Union
During World War II certain categories of population, primarily
Until the last days of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Army incorporated the idea of the labor army. With obligatory military duty in the state, men deemed unfit for regular military duty but not unfit for other work, as well as many able-bodied ones, were assigned to construction battalions (стройбаты). This tradition continues in a number of post-Soviet states, notably Russia, Belarus and Turkmenistan.[5]
See also
- Alternative civilian service
- Bevin Boys
- Civil conscription
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- Construction soldier
- Hand and hitch-up services
- Labor battalion
- Reserve Army of Labour
- Reichsarbeitsdienst
- Workfare
- Unfree labour
References
- ^ Цысь В. В. Трудовые армии периода Гражданской войны — Нижневартовск, 2009.
- ^ "Первая революционная армия труда РСФСР"
- ^ a b c Leon Trotsky, ЗАДАЧИ ТРУДОВОЙ МОБИЛИЗАЦИИ
- ^ "Leon Trotsky: The Revolution Betrayed (1. What Has Been Achieved)".
- ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Туркменские солдаты хотят в "дубайские роты" | DW | 04.02.2010". DW.COM (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-08-01.