UID:
almafu_9959239592902883
Format:
1 online resource (251 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-97464-7
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1-283-64218-2
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1-134-97465-5
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1-282-37390-0
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9786612373909
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0-203-99133-8
Content:
This is a key question for all Western military strategists. If the Soviets are indeed willing to tolerate high human sacrifice in warfare this obviously puts them at a military advantage. The perceived wisdom, hitherto, is that the Soviets are indeed willing to tolerate high casualties in battle - this, initial, view is reinforced by myths about Stalin clearing minefields by marching penal battalions across them. Professor Sella, however, comes to a different conclusion. He surveys Soviet attitudes to the military-medical service; to its own prisoners of war; and to the ethos
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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The value of human life in Soviet warfare; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Soviet Military Medical Service; Introduction; The history of the Service; The Military Medical Service after the Revolution; The first tests of fire; The Molotav-Ribbentrop Pact-an interregnum; The composition of the Military Medical Service; Chapter 2 The performance of the Service during the Great Patriotic War; Introduction; Medical theory under fire; Reorganization and coordination; The Air Force; The Navy; Medicine and voluntarism on the home front-the 'rear'
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Women's health Disease and epidemics; The policy of medical staff replenishment; Assessment of Soviet casualties in the Great Patriotic War; An assessment of Soviet medical treatment; The contemporary Military Medical Service; Chapter 3 The Soviet attitude to POW's; Introduction; The changing attitude to the status of POW's; The legal legacy of the Soviet Armed Forces; The Soviet Government's wartime attitude to its POW's; Order No. 270; Analysis of the effects of Order No. 270; The attitude on the battlefield; The diplomatic struggle during the war; The situation towards the end of the war
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The roots of the Cold War The Vlasov case; POW's on the international agenda after the war; POWs in Afghanistan; Chapter 4 Fighting at all costs; Introduction; Military experience after the Revolution: discipline and morale through education; Morale and discipline in the Great Patriotic War; An assessment of the Soviet attitude to the cost of fighting; A new strategy for the 1990's and beyond; Chapter 5Conclusion: the value of human life in Soviet warfare; The fire power/manoeuvre component of the equation; A behavioural observation: the rationale of fighting armies
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Compassion and the utilitarian approach Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-87430-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-02467-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203991336
