During World War I
At the outbreak of World War I Bogdanov served as a doctor with the 221st Smolensk infantry division in the Second Army commanded by General Alexander Samsonov. However following the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, he succombed to a nervous disorder, and subsequently became Junior house surgeon at an evacuation hospital. In 1916 he wrote four articles for Vpered which provided an analysis of the World War and the dynamics of war economies. He was later to apply this theoretical viewpoint to an analysis of war communism.
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