Format:
1 online resource (913 pages)
ISBN:
9781136339523
Content:
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.
Content:
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 -- VI. TOWARDS COLLABORATION WITH THE REICHSWEHR -- VII. 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 ... -- XVI. THE RACE WITH TIME, 1939-1940 -- PART 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780714651781
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780714651781
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1272861
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