Background
Egorov, Aleksandr was born on October 25, 1883 in Buzuluk, Samara Gouvernement.
Egorov, Aleksandr was born on October 25, 1883 in Buzuluk, Samara Gouvernement.
Studied at the Kazan’ Infantry School, 1905. Educated at Samara High School. Studied at the Kazan’ Infantry School, 1905.
Volunteered for military service. At the front during World War I. Colonel, November 1917. Close to the left SRs, but changed to the Bolsheviks in the summer of 1918.
Chairman of the commission which selected former officers of the Imperial Army for service in the Red Army. In 1918, commander of the 10th Army which failed to defend Tsaritsyn against Wrangel. Commander on the Southern front against Denikin, 1919.
In the early 1920s, several high commands in the Caucasus, Ukraine and Crimea. Military attache in China, 1925-1926. Head of the Red Army General Staff, 1931, Head of the USSR General Staff, 1935.
Deputy Defence Minister, 1937-1938.
Religions encourage war and violence to promote their religious goals.
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.