Plans for Stalin's War-Machine: Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925-1941 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Samuelson, L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 031222527X ISBN-13: 9780312225278 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1999 Annotation: In the interwar period, Red Army commanders headed by Tukhachevskii developed a new raw doctrine of mobile warfare and "deep operations." The military requirements of armaments and industrial production in the event of war was a central parameter in Stalinist industrialization. Based on recently opened Russian archives, this book analyzes military dimensions of Soviet long-term economic and military reconstruction plans from the mid-1920s until 1941. It presents a new framework for estimating the Soviet war-economic preparedness, drastically underestimated by contemporaries. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Strategy - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - History | Modern - General |
Dewey: 338.947 |
LCCN: 99014622 |
Series: Studies in Russian and East European History |
Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.72" W x 8.83" (1.22 lbs) 267 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Russia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In the interwar period, Red Army commanders headed by Tukhachevskii developed a new doctrine of mobile warfare and 'deep operations'. The military requirements of armaments and industrial production in the event of war was a central parameter in Stalinist industrialization. Based on recently opened Russian archives, the book analyzes military dimensions of Soviet long-term economic and military reconstruction plans from the mid-1920s until 1941. It presents a new framework for estimating the Soviet war-economic preparations, drastically underestimated by contemporaries. |