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9780415408608

The Soviet High Command: a Military-political History, 1918-1941: A Military Political History, 1918-1941

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415408608

  • ISBN10:

    0415408601

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2001-05-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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.

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Introduction - the origins of a new army
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
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
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
The politics of mechanization: the reaction to threats from east and west
A brief triumph, 1934-1935
Plots and counter-plots
The military purge and the reconstruction of command: the killings, 1937
Exeunt omnes...
The race with time, 1939-1940
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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