Background
SHAPOSHNIKOV, Boris was born on October 2, 1882 in Zlatoust. Son of a distillery mang and a schoolmistress.
SHAPOSHNIKOV, Boris was born on October 2, 1882 in Zlatoust. Son of a distillery mang and a schoolmistress.
1903 graduate Moscow Military College. 1910 graduate General Staff Academy
1901 joined Russian Army. 1903-1907 officer, 1st Turkestani Infantry Battalion in Centr Asia. 1910-1912 company commander.
1912 — 14 officer, Staff of 14th Cavalry Division. 1914-1918 adjutant, Staff of 14th Cavalry Division. Staff officer (captain) for special assignments, Quartermaster-General Board, Staff of Commander in Chief, Northwestern Front.
Chief of staff, Separate Composite Cossack Brigade, 2nd Turkestani Cossack Division. Actg chief of staff, 10th Army Corps. Commander, 16th Grenadier Mingrel Regt.
Elected commander, Caucasian Grenadier Division. March 1918 demobilized from Russian Army. May 1918 volunteered for Red Army.
1918-1921 assistant head, Operations Board, Higher Military Council. Assistant chief of staff, Ukraine People’s Commissariat of Military and Naval Affairs. Head, Intelligence Department, Operations Board, Field Staff of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Revol Military Council.
February 1921—May 1925 1st assistant chief of staff of Red Army. May 1925—May 1927 commander, Leningrad Military district. May 1927—May 1928 commander, Moscow Military district.
May 1928—April 1931 chief of staff of Red Army. April 1931—March 1932 commander, Volga Military district. March 1932— September 1935 commandant and comissar, Frunze Military Academy.
September 1935— May 1937 commander, Leningrad Military district. May 1937— August 1940 chief of Red Army General Staff. After 1939 proposed that main forces of the military districts be retained within the old state borders behind the fortified-area line, while the newly annexed areas be defended by light covering forces capable of holding off an enemy until the main forces could be deployed.
His views were ignored, and this oversight was one of the factors which contributed to the early rout of the Red Army during the early period of World War 2. From 14 August 1940 USSR Deputy People’s Commissar of Defense, in charge of the construction of fortifications. 29 July 1941-1926 June 1942 chief, Red Army General Staff.
From June 1942 USSR Deputy People’s Commissar of Defense, in charge of revision of military regulations. June 1943—March 1945 commandant, Voroshilov Higher Military Academy (General Staff Academy). 1939-1945 candidate member, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1937 convocation.
Religion divides people, and is a cause of numerous wars and conflicts throughout the human history.
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
Communist Party member from 1930.