| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 889 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cass series on Soviet (Russian) military institutions,
1462-1835 ;
3
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Cass series on Soviet (Russian) military institutions ; 3.
1462-1835
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| Note |
Originally published: Westview Press, 1984. With new introd. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 809-834) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cover; THE SOVIET HIGH COMMAND; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; LIST OF MAPS; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; I. THE ORIGINS OF A NEW ARMY; PART ONE The Revolutionary Military Command, 1918-1920; II. THE CREATION OF THE SOVIET MILITARY MACHINE; III. THE FORMATION OF THE SOVIET COMMAND, 1918-1920; IV. BEFORE THE GATES OF WARSAW, 1920; PART TWO Military Debates and Political Derisions, 1921-1926; V. THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE ARMY. |
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VI. TOWARDS COLLABORATION WITH THE REICHSWEHRVII. THE REIGN OF FRUNZE AND THE RISE OF VOROSHILOV, 1924-1926; PART THREE Foreign Adventures and Strategic Priorities; VIII. THE SOVIET RE-ENTRY INTO THE FAR EAST: THE PROBLEM OF JAPAN AND CHINA; IX. MILITARY AND NAVAL TRAFFICKING WITH GERMANY; X. SOVIET PREOCCUPATIONS WITH WAR; PART FOUR The Politics of Mechanisation; XI. THE REACTION TO THREATS FROM EAST AND WEST; XII. A BRIEF TRIUMPH, 1934-1935; XIII. PLOTS AND COUNTER-PLOTS; PART FIVE The Military Purge and the Reconstruction of the Command; XIV. THE KILLINGS, 1937; XV. EXEUNT OMNES ... |
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XVI. THE RACE WITH TIME, 1939-1940PART SIX The Beginning of the Ordeal, 1941; XVII. 'WE ARE BEING FIRED ON. WHAT SHALL WE DO?'; XVIII. THE BATTLE FOR MOSCOW: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1941; THE PROSPECT; NOTES; GENERAL APPENDIX; APPENDIXES I-IV; SOURCE MATERIALS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY; BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX TO LEADING MILITARY PERSONALITIES; INDEX. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹ Ui³yanska Ui³ya Krasna Ui³ya -- History. |
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Soviet Union -- Military policy.
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Soviet Union. |
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Military policy. |
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Soviet Union -- History, Military.
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History, Military. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Military history.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Erickson, John, 1929-2002. Soviet high command. Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2001 9780714651781 (DLC) 2001028740 |
| ISBN |
9781136339523 (electronic book) |
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1136339523 (electronic book) |
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1299727050 (electronic book) |
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9781299727052 (electronic book) |
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