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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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Erickson, John, 1929-2002.
Format: Electronic eBook
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)