Roger R Reese

The Soviet Military Experience

A History of the Soviet Army, 1917-1991

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This account of the Soviet military experience includes discussion of: the origins of the Workers and Peasants Red Army; the effects of the Civil War; the Bolshevik regime's use of the military as a school of socialism; the effects of collectivization and rapid industrialization of the 1920s and 1930s; World War II and its profound repercussions; the ethnic tensions within the army; and the effect of Gorbachev's policies of "Glasnost" and "Perestroika". The text is organized chronologically and thematically within chapters, and includes a comprehensive bibliography.

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This is the first general work to place the soviet army into its true social, political and international contexts. It focuses on the aim to create a new type of army that both protected the people and propogated Marxist ideas worldwide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780415217200
• ISBN-10: 0415217202
• Artikelnr.: 21161761

Autorenporträt

Reese, Roger R.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of Russian words and phrases
Map
Introduction
1. The birth of the Red Army
2. The Civil War
and Polish-Soviet War
1917-21
3. The Red Army between the wars
1922-39
4. PUR and the Army: the political side of military service
5. The Red Army and the Second World War
1939-45
6. The cold war years
1946-91
7. The war in Afghanistan and the Gorbachev era
1979-91
Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index