User:Kges1901

About
Fourth-year college student majoring in Russian and international relations with a passion for military history. Areas of interest include the social and organizational history of the Soviet military, primarily focusing on the role of the Red Army in World War II. Using previously secret Soviet military documents and recent scholarly analysis, I seek to illuminate the lives of ordinary soldiers, who have previously remained faceless in Western historiography, and reduce uncritical repetition of propaganda by both sides in Eastern Front articles.

Major contributions include:


 * Featured articles on the 15th Tank Corps and 2nd Red Banner Army, still the only articles on Soviet World War II units to reach featured status
 * Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive and Odessa Offensive, using Soviet casualty reports to provide more accurate casualty estimates. To date, these recently available reports have not been exploited in secondary literature.
 * More than 120 biographies of wartime Soviet commanders, including those assessed as failures in command, the repressed, and those rewarded for their performance, drawing on recently digitized performance assessments and personnel records to provide a more objective view. These include some whose biographies reveal the nature of wartime discipline:
 * Aleksandr Borisovich Rodionov, a division commander demoted for drunkenness, later killed in action
 * Aleksey Vlasenko, a division commander demoted for summarily executing subordinates
 * Histories of Soviet rifle divisions incorporating archival documents to provide data on ethnicity and demographics of their personnel, such as 257th Rifle Division (November 1941 formation)

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 * 1) Divisional Cavalry Regiment (New Zealand)
 * 2) 5th Mechanised Corps (Soviet Union)
 * 3) Mikhail Petrovich Petrov (general)
 * 4) 15th Tank Corps
 * 5) August Kork
 * 6) 390th Rifle Division
 * 7) Boris Snetkov
 * 8) 41st Guards Rocket Division
 * 9) 52nd Rocket Division
 * 10) 17th Special Operations Squadron
 * 11) 2nd Red Banner Army
 * 12) 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO
 * 13) Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive
 * 14) 57th Rifle Division
 * 15) 116th Infantry Regiment (United States)
 * 16) 102nd Division (Philippines)
 * 17) Soviet cruiser Kronstadt
 * 18) Soviet cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (1969)
 * 19) Soviet cruiser Admiral Isakov
 * 20) Soviet cruiser Admiral Makarov (1970)
 * 21) Soviet cruiser Marshal Voroshilov
 * 22) Soviet cruiser Admiral Oktyabrsky
 * 23) South Australian Mounted Rifles
 * 24) Battle of Elands River (1900) (with AustralianRupert)
 * 25) 211th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
 * 26) Soviet destroyer Moskva (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 27) USS Oberrender
 * 28) HMS Escapade
 * 29) Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970)
 * 30) Mikhail Timofeyevich Romanov
 * 31) Soviet destroyer Nezamozhnik (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 32) No. 2 Squadron RCAF
 * 33) No. 3 Squadron RCAF
 * 34) Soviet destroyer Baku (with )
 * 35) Soviet destroyer Gnevny (1936) (with )
 * 36) Soviet destroyer Gordy (1937) (with )
 * 37) Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 38) Soviet destroyer Silny (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 39) Soviet destroyer Strashny (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 40) Soviet destroyer Stoyky (1938) (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 41) 252nd Rifle Division (with Wreck Smurfy
 * 42) Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 43) Soviet destroyer Svobodny (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 44) Soviet destroyer Sovershenny (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 45) Soviet destroyer Smyshleny (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 46) Soviet destroyer Soobrazitelny (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 47) Russian destroyer Gadzhibey (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 48) Soviet destroyer Razyaryonny (1941) (with Sturmvogel 66)
 * 49) Soviet destroyer Serdity (1940) (with )
 * 50) Soviet destroyer Shaumyan (with )
 * 51) Soviet destroyer Skory (1939) (with )
 * 52) Soviet destroyer Slavny (1939) (with )
 * 53) Soviet destroyer Smely (1939) (with )
 * 54) Soviet destroyer Statny (1939) (with )
 * 55) Soviet destroyer Strogy (1939) (with )
 * 56) Soviet destroyer Stroyny (with )
 * 57) Soviet destroyer Surovy (1940) (with )
 * 58) Soviet destroyer Svirepy (with )
 * 59) Soviet destroyer Tbilisi (with )
 * 60) 68th Mountain Rifle Division
 * 61) USS O'Flaherty
 * 62) 4th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
 * 63) Benjamin Lewis Hodge
 * 64) Semyon Sakhnov
 * 65) 13th Light Tank Brigade
 * 66) 1st Louisiana Regulars Infantry Regiment
 * 67) John Q. Loomis
 * 68) 7th Alabama Infantry Regiment
 * 69) 27th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
 * 70) John G. Coltart
 * 71) Aleksandr Borisovich Rodionov
 * 72) Grigory Panchenko
 * 73) Ivan Kopyak
 * 74) Konstantin Kulikov
 * 75) Filipp Braylyan
 * 76) Soviet destroyer Sokrushitelny (1937) (with )
 * 77) Aleksandr Maykov


 * /Major contributions
 * /Resources
 * /Resources/Feskov et al 2013
 * /HSU To-do list
 * /Soviet units To-do list
 * /Rifle divisions of the Soviet Union To-do list
 * /Redlinked Soviet/CIS generals
 * /Draft List of Soviet Aviation Divisions (on hold)
 * /Repressed commanders
 * /Soviet warships
 * /Union regiments
 * /Library