The Soviet high command : a military-political history, 1918-1941
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The Soviet high command : a military-political history, 1918-1941
(Cass series on Soviet (Russian) military experience, 3)
Frank Cass, 2001
3rd ed
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Originally published: Westview Press, 1984. With new introd
Includes bibliographical references (p. 809-834) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An objective and documentary history of the earliest origins and formative years of the Workers-Peasants Red Army from the Civil War to the initial disasters of the war with Germany, the Great Patriotic War, culminating in the "battle for Moscow" in November-December 1941.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - the origins of a new army. Part One The revolutionary military command, 1918-1920: the creation of the Soviet military machine
- the formation of the Soviet Command, 1918-1920
- before the gates of Warsaw, 1920. Part Two Military debates and political decisions, 1921-1926: the struggle for control of the Army
- towards collaboration with the Reichswehr
- the reign of Frunz and the rise of Voroshilov, 1924-1926. Part Three Foreign adventures and strategic priorities: the Soviet re-entry into the Far East: the problem of Japan and China
- military and naval trafficking with Germany
- Soviet preoccupations with war. Part Four The politics of mechanization: the reaction to threats from east and west
- a brief triumph, 1934-1935
- plots and counter-plots. Part Five The military purge and the reconstruction of command: the killings, 1937
- exeunt omnes...
- the race with time, 1939-1940. Part Six The beginning of the ordeal, 1941: we are being fired on. What shall we do?
- the battle for Moscow - November-December 1941
- the prospect.
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