Corrections

The article “Revolutionaries in World War II” (WV No. 865, 3 March), reprinted from Workers Hammer No. 193 (Winter 2005-2006), incorrectly referred to Red Army commander Mikhail Tukhachevsky as a general. The Red Army was built on the principle of abolishing the rank of general, along with all other ranks of the tsarist officer caste. Officers’ ranks were only restored to the Red Army in 1935 as part of the Stalinist bureaucracy’s consolidation of political power (see “On the Abolition of Ranks in the Red Army,” Workers Hammer No. 196, Autumn 2006).

In part two of “The Russian Revolution of 1917: From the February Revolution to the July Days” (WV No. 875, 1 September), the graphic of troops firing on protesters during the July Days was taken from a painting by A.M. Liubimov.