Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programs, 1935-53

by Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer

Overview

A study of the development of strategic concepts in Stalin's Navy, in the context of his foreign/defence policy, using original archival documents translated from the Russian.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714648958
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/2001
Series:	Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer

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Ships Telegraph

"This is an essential work for the educated naval historian who knows his Soviet history."



Times Literary Supplement

"the authors of this fascinating book have ensured, however, that no portrait of Stalin lacking the element of his naval ambitions can be described as adequate

Editorial Reviews

'This book is essential to understanding a phenomenon - Soviet naval expansion post-1945 - which increasingly distorted British naval policy prior to 1982 and from whose shadow we weren't wholly free even after the collapse of the USSR.'

Mark Brady, The Naval Review

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