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The Soviet military experience : a history of the Soviet Army, 1917-1991
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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 ...
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*
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- Creator
- Roger R. Reese
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London : New York : Routledge, 2000
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (221 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0203011856, 9780203171523, 0415217202, 9780415217200, 0203171527, 1134604270, 9780415217194, 1280333766, 9786610333769, 1134604289, 0415217199
- OCLC
- on1000433126, ocm56995427, ocm40881432
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-202) and index.
- English
- 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