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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820736603321

Autore

Reese Roger R.

Titolo

The Soviet military experience : a history of the Soviet Army, 1917-1991 / / Roger R. Reese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-60427-0

1-280-33376-6

0-203-17152-7

0-203-01185-6

1-134-60428-9

9786610333769

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Warfare and history

Disciplina

355/.00947

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 (p. 200-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of Russian words and phrases; Map; Introduction; The birth of the Red Army; The Civil War, and Polish-Soviet War, 1917  21; The Red Army between the wars, 1922  39; PUR and the Army: the political side of military service; The Red Army and the Second World War, 1939  45; The cold war years, 1946  91; The war in Afghanistan and the Gorbachev era, 1979  91; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Soviet Military Experience is the first general work to place the Soviet army into its true social, political and international contexts.It focuses on the Bolshevik Party's intention to create an army of a new type, whose aim was both to defend the people and propagate Marxist ideals to the rest of the world. It includes discussion of the:* origins of the Workers and Peasant's Red Army* effects of the Civil War* Bolshevik regime's use of the military as a school of socialism* effects of collectivization and rapid industrialisation of the 1920's and 1930's*