The Soviet High Command: a Military-political History, 1918-1941: A Military Political History, 1918-1941

by John Erickson (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714651781
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/01/2001
Series:	Soviet (Russian) Military Institutions , #3
Edition description:	3RD
Pages:	928
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Erickson

Table of Contents

Introduction - the origins of a new army. Part One The revolutionary military command, 1918-1920: the creation of the Soviet military machine; the formation of the Soviet Command, 1918-1920; before the gates of Warsaw, 1920. Part Two Military debates and political decisions, 1921-1926: the struggle for control of the Army; towards collaboration with the Reichswehr; the reign of Frunz and the rise of Voroshilov, 1924-1926. Part Three Foreign adventures and strategic priorities: the Soviet re-entry into the Far East: the problem of Japan and China; military and naval trafficking with Germany; Soviet preoccupations with war. Part Four The politics of mechanization: the reaction to threats from east and west; a brief triumph, 1934-1935; plots and counter-plots. Part Five The military purge and the reconstruction of command: the killings, 1937; exeunt omnes...; the race with time, 1939-1940. Part Six The beginning of the ordeal, 1941: we are being fired on. What'shall we do?; the battle for Moscow - November-December 1941; the prospect.