The Soviet High Command a military-political history, 1918-1941 / John Erickson.
This book aims to furnish a history of the origins and development of Soviet military leadership, together with a survey of its relations with the Communist Party and the governmental apparatus, within the chronological limits of the first attempts to organise the Red Army and a military command.
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Language: | English |
Published: | London : Routledge, 2019. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction
- The Origins of a New Army
- The Revolutionary Military Command, 1918-1920
- The Creation of the Soviet Military Machine
- The Formation of the Soviet Command: 1918-1920
- Before the Gates of Warsaw: 1920
- Military Debates and Political Decisions, 1921-1926
- The Struggle for Control of the Army
- Towards Collaboration with the 'Reichswehr'
- The Reign of Frunze and the Rise of Voroshilov: 1924-1926
- Foreign Adventures and Strategic Priorities
- The Soviet Re-entry into The Far East: The Problem of Japan and China
- Military and Naval Trafficking with Germany
- Soviet Preoccupations with War
- The Politics of Mechanisation
- The Reaction to threats from East and West
- A Brief Triumph: 1934-1935
- Plots and Counter-plots
- The Military Purge and the Reconstruction of the Command
- The Killings: 1937
- Exeunt Omnes . . .
- The Race with Time: 1939-1940
- The Beginning of the Ordeal: 1941
- 'We are being fired on. What shall we do?'
- The Battle for Moscow: November-December 1941
- Appendixes
- General Appendix
- Attestation: Command and Political Staff, Red Army
- (material from the period 1918-20) On the Supreme Military Soviet
- (material from the period 1923-7)
- (materials from the period 1936-7)
- (materials from the period 1939-41)