ABSTRACT
Ivan Ivanovich, sovereign member of the Russian ruling class, fretted at the snail-slow pace of the trolley car that carried him, sardine-fashion, along with eighty-eight co-rulers of the Russian land, to their respective places of work. The fixity of the peasant in old Russia was not created, as was the case of the serf under Western feudalism, by a shortage of land, for always in Russia there was the boundless steppe. The authorities next turned to the Soviet youth as a potential source of fresh labor supply. As "war industries" were increasingly placed directly under the army, the Soviet Union was increasingly turned into one vast military encampment. The Soviet "experiment" became the vastest experiment in total militarization of a people, its life, labor, and thought known to the history of man. Inevitably, the militarization of industry and civil life was bound to react in turn upon the structure of the Red Army.
