The Bolsheviks and the Red Army, 1918-1922
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The Bolsheviks and the Red Army, 1918-1922
（Soviet and East European studies）
Cambridge University Press, 1988
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I Bolscevichi e l'Armata rossa, 1918-1922
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Translation of: I bolscevichi e l'Armata rossa, 1918-1922
Includes bibliography and index
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Description
The emergence of the military agency of the Soviet state is a crucial but neglected aspect of inter-war Soviet history, and in this pioneering study Francesco Benvenuti provides a detailed analysis of the politics (as opposed to the operational activities) of the Red Army during the Civil War. Several historians have suggested that the roots of Stalinism may be found in the Bolshevik experience during the Civil War, and Benvenuti shows that the military opposition inside the party was much stronger than conventionally supposed: Trotsky's subsequent political weakness owed much to his ruthless pursuit of military goals not always in direct harmony with party interests, as did his technocratic attempts to extend the role of specialist advisers at the expense of party officials.
Table of Contents
- 1. The disintegration of the Imperial Army
- 2. The birth of the Red Army
- 3. Reorganization on the battlefield
- 4. Opposition within the party
- 5. Military policy at the 8th Congress
- 6. Rupture and reconciliation
- 7. Peace or war
- 8. Continuing political tensions.
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