Title: RUDÁ ARMÁDA
Photographer(s): Various photographers
Writer(s): Jaroslav Knobloch
Designer(s): Vladimir Smutný
Publisher(s): Svět sovětů, Prague, Czech Republic
Year: 1946
Print run:
Language(s): Czech
Pages: 64
Size: 15 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: M.Sculz, Prague, Czech Republic
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Russia,1946
ISBN:
The era of the Third Czechoslovak Republic began on 4 april 1945 with the formation of a provisional government in the eastern Slovak city of Kosice, the first city on Czecholovak territory to be liberated by the advancing Soviet Red Army.
Although this book was made in Czechoslovak Republic it is still meant to be a glorification of the Russian Army in the aftermath of liberation from Nazism. Like many other publications of the period there is always a mixture of propaganda and protest or at least the glorification of resistance both by partisans and by regular armies.
The book is meant to celebrate the greatness and importance of the Russian Army, formed on January 28, 1918 by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and as expressed in the preface the newly formed Army was made up of the most conscious and progressive representatives of the working classes. That is why it was built on the principle of voluntarism with workers' detachments that merged with in the Red Army , these brought with them a highly revolutionary spirit, awareness, combat experience and new command cadres.
Although this book was made in Czechoslovak Republic it is still meant to be a glorification of the Russian Army in the aftermath of liberation from Nazism. Like many other publications of the period there is always a mixture of propaganda and protest or at least the glorification of resistance both by partisans and by regular armies.