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===[[File:Brusilov.png]] '''Brusilovism/Red Tsarism'''===
Aleksei[a] Alekseyevich Brusilov was a Russian and later Soviet general most noted for developing new offensive tactics used in the 1916 Brusilov offensive, which was his most outstanding achievement.

Born into an aristocratic military family, Brusilov trained as a [[File:Tankie.png]]cavalry officer but, by 1914, had realized that cavalry was obsolete in an offensive capacity against modern weapons of warfare such as the mass adoption of rifled guns, machine guns, and artillery. He is an outstanding general who won many battles against the Austro-Hungarian army. His offensive in 1916 was the final major success of the [[File:Tsar2.png]]Tsarist army. In the government, this offensive meant the transfer of the strategic initiative to the Russians and the beginning of preparations for the general offensive of 1917, which was disrupted by the revolution.

Because some of his former soldiers were serving in the newly formed Red Army, Brusilov concurred that radical change was necessary. Brusilov saw cooperation with the [[File:Lenin.png]]Soviet state as a way to hold the territory of the former Russian Empire together in the interests of the Russian nation. Privately, he expressed the [[File:Mach.png]]hope that the communist system would pass and be replaced by a Russian nation-state. He accused exiled White emigrants and the White movement overall of putting their class interests above the interests of the Russian nation.

On 30 May 1920, during the Polish Eastern offensive of the Polish-Soviet War, he published in Pravda an appeal entitled "To All Former Officers, Wherever They Might Be," encouraging anti-Bolshevik Russians to forgive past grievances and join the Red Army. Brusilov considered it a patriotic duty for all Russian officers to join hands with the Bolshevik government, which in his opinion was defending [[File:LeftNatcon.png]]Russia against foreign invaders. On 12 September 1920, Mikhail Kalinin, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Sergey Kamenev and Brusilov signed an appeal, "To all officers of the army of Baron Wrangel," in which they called on White Army officers to go over to the side of the Russian Soviet Republic. In the document, they accused Wrangel of acting in the interests of the Polish nobility and the Anglo-French capitalists, who they believed had used the Wrangel army to enslave the Russian people (as had happened with the Czechoslovak corps and the "black-skinned divisions").

Initially, Brusilov served on a special commission to determine the size and structure of the Red Army. Later, he led cavalry recruit training and became Inspector of Cavalry. He retired in 1924 but continued to carry out commissions for the Revolutionary Military Council.