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Finnish Guards' Rifle Battalion on parade in white gymnastyorka shirt-tunics April 1905. Officers at right are wearing the kitel tunic.. The gymnastyorka (till 1917 officially named "gymnastic tunic", гимнастическая рубаха) was originally introduced into the Imperial Russian Army in about 1870 for wear by regiments stationed in Turkestan during the hot summers. [1]
On 23 February 1917, [a] Russia burst into a revolution and with it came the fall of the Tsardom and the establishment of a Provisional Government. [3] The defining factor in the fall of the Autocracy was the lack of support from the military: both soldier and sailor rebelled against their officers and joined the masses. [4]
Bolshevichka or Bolshevitchka (Russian: Большевичка, literally: "female Bolshevik") is a clothes factory in Moscow. It was launched on November 16, 1929. It was launched on November 16, 1929.
Red Guards were a transitional military force of the collapsing Imperial Russian Army and the base formations of Bolsheviks during the October Revolution and the first months of the Russian Civil War. Most of them were formed in the time frame of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and some of the units were reorganized into the Red Army during 1918.
The Volunteer Army fought against Bolsheviks and the Makhnovists on the Southern Front and the Ukrainian War of Independence. On 8 January 1919, it was made part of the Armed Forces of South Russia , becoming the largest force of the White movement until it was merged with the Army of Wrangel in March 1920.
Women's uniforms have a long, complex history. When a new Nike women's track kit came under fire this spring, athletes weighed in on the controversial uniform. ... Old Navy's Break a Sweat Sale ...
The Bolsheviks had opposed any division of the working class, including separating men and women to put some focus specifically on women's issues. They thought men and women needed to work together with no division, and because of this, in the party's early days, there was no literature printed specifically targeting women, and the Bolsheviks ...
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