Background
Snesarev, Andrei was born on December 13, 1865 in Staraia Kalitva, Voronezh Oblast’. Son of an Orthodox priest.
military commander Orientalist
Snesarev, Andrei was born on December 13, 1865 in Staraia Kalitva, Voronezh Oblast’. Son of an Orthodox priest.
Graduated from Moscow University in mathematics, 1888, then from the Moscow Conservatory. Graduated from Moscow Infantry School, 1890, then from the Academy of the General Staff, 1899.
Knew 14 languages. Served in Turkestan. Became interested in the Middle East and Far East. Wrote travel diaries on Afghanistan, Tibet and India.
Served in the General Staff from 1904, taught military geography at military schools. Chief-of-staff of a Cossack Division from 1910. Commander of a regiment, brigade, then a division during World War I. In Sep.
1917, Lieutenant-general and Commander of the 9th Army Corps. In May 1918, joined the Red Army. Commander of the Northern-Caucasian military district, June-July 1918.
From March 1919, Commander of the BelorussianLithuanian Army. From August 1919— July 1921, head of the Academy of the General Staff. From 1921-1930, rector and professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow.
Professor at the Air Force Academy, 1924, and at the Military-Political Academy from 1926. Accused of being a member of a monarchist group.
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.