Prisoners of War in Soviet Russia, 1917-1925

FAIN: FT-12602-75

Arnold P. Krammer
Texas A & M University, College Station (College Station, TX 77843-0001)

To study the more than 1.6 million P.O.W.s held by the Russians following the 1917 Revolution. These men became the object of a concerted campaign by the new Soviet government to propagandize and convert them into suitable vehicles of revolution upon their repatriation. Their political effect was considerable especially in Germany.