The Soviet military experience : a history of the Soviet Army, 1917-1991
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The Soviet military experience : a history of the Soviet Army, 1917-1991
(Warfare and history)
Routledge, c2000
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The Soviet military experience
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 200-202
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Soviet Military Experience is the first general work to place the Soviet army into its true social, political and international contexts.
It focuses on the Bolshevik Party's intention to create an army of a new type, whose aim was both to defend the people and propagate Marxist ideals to the rest of the world. It includes discussion of the:
* origins of the Workers and Peasant's Red Army
* effects of the Civil War
* Bolshevik regime's use of the military as a school of socialism
* effects of collectivization and rapid industrialisation of the 1920s and 1930s
* Second World War and its profound repercussions
* ethnic tensions within the army
* effect of Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, List of Russian words and phrases, Map, Introduction, 1. The birth of the Red Army, 2. The Civil War, and Polish-Soviet War, 1917-21, 3. The Red Army between the wars, 1922-39, 4. PUR and the Army: the political side of military service, 5. The Red Army and the Second World War, 1939-45, 6. The cold war years, 1946-91, 7. The war in Afghanistan and the Gorbachev era, 1979-91, Conclusion, Notes, Select bibliography, Index
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