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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783953403321

Autore

Ziemke Earl Frederick <1922, >

Titolo

The Red Army, 1918-1941 : from vanguard of world revolution to US ally / / Earl F. Ziemke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-76917-6

0-429-23364-7

0-203-60833-X

1-135-76918-4

1-280-05793-9

0-203-49844-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (454 p.)

Collana

Cass series--strategy and history, , 1473-6403 ; ; 7

Disciplina

355/.033047

Soggetti

Soviet Union History

Soviet Union History, Military

Soviet Union Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Glossary of Terms; List of Abbreviations; The Military Revolutionary Committee; 'All Power to the Soviets'; Birth of the Red Army, War, and Peace; 'In a Fiery Ring of Fronts'; An Armed Camp; The Test of Battle on Three Fronts; The Decisive Battles; Defeat and Victory; Class War and Military Reform; The New Order; The Red Army and the Reichswehr; The Tukhachevskiy Era; Stalin's Military Reform; Approaching the 'Second Imperialist War'; The 'Most Pressing and Deadly Threat'; War Plans

Stalin DeceivedThe Red Army at Bay; The Heartland in Peril; The Heartland Preserved; Conclusion; Code Names; Notes on Historiography; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Supported in large part by evidence released after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book follows the career of the Red Army from its birth in 1918 as the designated vanguard of world revolution to its affiliation in 1941 with 'the citadel of capitalism', the United States.



Effectiveness of leadership and military doctrine are particular concerns here, and Josef Stalin is the dominant personality.On the basis of the Russian Civil War (1918-20), the Red Army began to bill itself as 'an army of a new type', inherently superior to all others. However, in late 1920, the Poles trounce