Ухилення від військової служби на Правобережній Україні у роки Першої світової війни (серпень 1914 – лютий 1917 рр.)

Abstract

On the base of unpublished archives documents and periodical materials press the author elucidated the problem of evasion from military service in the Russian army by men liable for call-up during the First World War. It’s cleared up that during 1914 – 1917 the main ways of call-up were: bribery of medical commission members, falsification of health state, simulation of illnesses, arrangement to fictitious work, concealment. It is clear that at the beginning of war time the attempts of evasion from mobilization had episodical nature. It was explained by strong patriotic movement and temporary raising of service prestige in the army. The mass cases of the evasion were noticed even in 1916, when the society, inspire of great military propaganda, lost interest to the war conducting towards a triumphal end. The appearance of numerous publications in the newspaper of the Right-Bank Ukraine about the disclosure of those, who evaded, in order to censure them publicity, had no desired results.