"The essays published in this book give an overview of the struggle unfolding in the army. The uprisings that took place here and there, in many ways reminiscent of the nature of the peasant movement, were particles of the onset of the revolution. They did not play a decisive role in it, did not give the victory of the revolution. But they were also an integral part of it, determined the picture of the "great uprising of 1905-1907.""