ORDER OF ACQUISITION OF THE ARMED FORCES IN RUSSIA WITH OFFICERS BEFORE THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION OF 1917
The article is devoted to the changes in the system of manning the Russian Imperial Army officers before the revolutionary events of 1917. Romanov dynasty saw in the officers the reliable support of statehood. Army not only defend the state against external enemies, but also used to fight against internal enemies. Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905 revealed serious shortcomings in the training of officers. In the period from 1906 until the outbreak of World War I, have been taken measures to improve the quality of training and education officers. In the course of the reform the officer corps became much younger. In its surroundings there were many talented commanders. During the First World War, the situation changed to the worse. During the first two years of military campaigns officer corps suffered significant losses in parts of the army practically no regular officers. Officers wartime additions to the officer corps during the war, did not have adequate combat experience and did not have the required level of general education and special military training (especially graduates of three-month courses ensigns training schools). Changes in the recruitment system directly affected the social composition of the officer corps. To the beginning of 1917 it was not a homogeneous social group, his class “purity” was broken. It was a rapid process of democratization and politicization that had an impact on the behavior of the army in the period of revolutionary events.