Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers

by Reese, Roger R.

• ISBN13: 9780700607723
• ISBN10: 0700607722
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Summary

"Caught in the borderlands of party politics and military preparedness, the Red Army endured the crucible of Stalin's purges. Reese tells this extraordinary story with an eye for dramatic detail and hidden irony, making full use of rare memoirs and newly accessible materials from Russian archives. A singular contribution to Soviet military history". -- Von Hardesty, author of Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941-1945. "An original, persuasive, and important contribution to our understanding of Soviet society". -- Mark Von Hagen, author of Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet-Socialist State, 1917-1930. "A very provocative and engaging book". -- William J. Chase, author of Workers, Society, and the Soviet State.

Author Biography

Roger Reese is associate professor of history at Texas A & M University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Organization and Training of the Regular Army and Territorial Forces	p. 9
Daily Life, Conditions of Service, and Discipline	p. 41
PUR and the Army: The Nonmilitary Side of Military Service	p. 71
The Red Army Officer Corps	p. 100
The Purge and Further Expansion	p. 132
The Last Eighteen Months of the Red Army: November 1939 to June 1941	p. 163
The Predictable Disaster and the End of the Red Army: 22 June to December 1941	p. 187
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 239
List of Military Units	p. 253
Index	p. 255
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