Discipline in the Russian army
Extract from a report by Lieutenant Colonel Blair, assistant military attaché in Petrograd, on discipline in the Russian army, 29 September 1917.

Blair's report was written barely a month after 'the lamentable failure of Kornilov's attempt to form a dictatorship' - a reference to the machinations of the now dismissed commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Lavr Kornilov, against Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government in August. Prior to the 'Kornilov affair', Blair argues, discipline and order was being restored among Russian troops. The present situation, however, was as unfavourable as it had been 'immediately after the [March] Revolution'.
Catalogue reference: WO 106/1037 (29 Sep 1917)

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