Partisan Warfare in Russia
The legendary First World War and Russian Civil War partisan cavalry unit known as ‘Shkuro’s Wolves’, pictured in 1919 during a lull in anti-Bolshevik operations. Recruited from Kuban Cossacks, the Wolves were named after their wolf-skin standard and papakhas (hat). Locally recruited Basmachi guerrillas pose with their Soviet commissar and advisor. During the 1920s elements […]
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