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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794221703321

Autore

Polmar Norman

Titolo

Admiral Gorshkov : the man who challenged the U.S. Navy / / Norman Polmar, Rear Admiral Thomas A. Brooks, U.S. Navy (Ret.), George Fedoroff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-68247-332-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Classificazione

355.01

Disciplina

359.0092

Soggetti

Soviet Union History, Naval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

GOBI

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Genesis -- Growing Up in the New World Order, 1910-1927 -- The Education of an Admiral, 1927-1941 -- Gorshkov at War, 1941 -- The Sea of Azov, 1942 [AU: AS ABOVE & HEREAFTER] -- On the Offensive, 1943-1945 -- Rebuilding a Nation and a Navy, 1945-1953 -- After Stalin -- Gorshkov, Zhukov, and the Stalingrad Group -- Building a Revolutionary Fleet -- New Directions -- Selling a Balanced Navy -- To the World's Oceans -- The Final Years -- Summary and Conclusions -- From Soviet Navy to Russian Navy

Sommario/riassunto

'Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei G. Gorshkov was the product of a tradition unlike those of his Western contemporaries. He had a unique background of revolution, civil war, world wars, and the forceful implementation of an all-controlling communist dictatorship. Out of this background of violence and overwhelming transformation came a man with a vivid appreciation of the role and value of navies, but with his own unique ideas about the kind of navy that the Soviet Union required and the role that navy should play in Soviet military and national strategy. Western naval observers have persisted in attempting to define Admiral Gorshkov in Western naval terms. Many of these observers have been baffled when they found that the man and his actions simply did not fit conventional narratives. This book lays out the tradition, background, experiences, and thinking of the man as they relate to the development of the Soviet Navy that Gorshkov



commanded for almost three decades and that was able to directly challenge the maritime dominance of the United States—a traditional sea power. His influence persists to this day, as the Russian Navy that is at sea in the twenty-first century is, to a significant degree, based on the fleet that Admiral Gorshkov built.'