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Special Court Martial of General Radola Gajda

Jakub Novák
Rok vydání: 2024

https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P280-0628-2024-9
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Abstrakt

Immediately after the Czechoslovak legionnaires got involved in the Russian Civil War, a legal confusion arose in their ranks. Although their own military courts were slowly being established, the Czechoslovak Army Corps was fragmented throughout Siberia into several groups that were in minimal contact with each other and in varying states of organization.
The commander of one of these groups was the ambitious officer Radola Gajda who, depending on whether we believe the testimony of his officers or not, either did not receive or ignored the order to create a unified court system and instead created his own, the so-called Special Court Martial.
This paper deals with the functioning of this specific judicial body, which became known for the arbitrariness of its decisions and draconian punishments. The result of an investigation that was later ordered to clarify the courts legitimacy and mitigate some of the punishments will also be described.

Klíčová slova

Czechoslovak Legion; Military Criminal Law; Military Courts; Russian Civil War; Radola Gajda; Special Court Martial.

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