2025/10/02 by H. G. W. Davie · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Central Asia Education and Culture #Government (linguistics) #Key (lock) #Power (physics) #Russia and Soviet political economy #Soviet and Russian History #Work (physics)
paper · doi:10.1080/13518046.2025.2585667
openalex publication_date 2025/10/02 · openalex created_date 2025/11/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
This article argues that the major contribution of the front was in restoring railway lines, by use of railway brigades and major units of the national railway, the NKPS. The fronts pushed forward, repaired railways and kept the combined-arms armies within a sustainable distance of a forward rail-head. Yet railway repair rates remained at First World War levels, so that fronts had to capture of important railway routes and prevent the enemy destroying them as they retreated, both of which lessened the repair burden. With the front creating transport routes behind the advance, the Red Army of the late war years was able to move at speed during its operations, despite using over a million horses.