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‘They Understood Nothing’

In: The Soldiers’ Strikes of 1919

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  • Andrew Rothstein

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Almost everywhere, therefore, the first demand of the armed forces after the Armistice, where it found expression, was for demobilisation, now that the war in which they had enlisted or for which they had been conscripted was over. Even in those rare cases where there was no record of the general demand for an end to wartime petty restrictions or privations being accompanied by the call for demobilisation, there can be no reasonable doubt that in fact return to civil life was uppermost in the thought of most soldiers (and sailors) in January 1919. But so long as they were in uniform, there was also the possibility of being sent to the new theatre of war already in being in Russia: and it would be quite wrong to imagine that this prospect, too, because it was not everywhere publicly reported, was not present in the minds of those who organised or participated in the soldiers’ strikes. For anyone who was in the forces at that time, and had the opportunity of hearing the conversations in huts and barracks, canteens and trains, there could be no possible doubt about the men’s all-pervading worry.

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  • Andrew Rothstein, 1980. "‘They Understood Nothing’," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Soldiers’ Strikes of 1919, chapter 4, pages 86-107, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05066-6_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05066-6_4
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