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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787588603321

Autore

Erickson John <1929, >

Titolo

The Soviet high command : a military-political history, 1918-1941 / / John Erickson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2001

ISBN

1-136-33959-0

0-203-04563-7

1-136-33952-3

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (913 p.)

Collana

Cass series on Soviet (Russian) military institutions, , 1462-1835 ; ; 3

Disciplina

355/.00947

Soggetti

Soviet Union Military policy

Soviet Union History, Military

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Westview Press, 1984. With new introduction.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 809-834) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The revolutionary military command, 1918-1920 -- pt. 2. Military debates and political derisions, 1921-1926 -- pt. 3. Foreign adventures and strategic priorities -- pt. 4. The politics of mechanisation -- pt. 5. The military purge and the reconstruction of the command -- pt. 6. The beginning of the ordeal, 1941.

Sommario/riassunto

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.