Officer's Handbook

✍ Scribed by S.N. Kozlov

• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 371
• Series: Officer's Library #15
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This compendium about the Soviet Armed Forces appeared in Moscow bookstores in 1971 as the fifteenth book in the Soviet "Officer's Library." It is one of the most basic works in that series and had an original pressrun of 83,000, which exceeds by far the pressrun of the other volumes in the "Officer's Library.'' As stated in the foreword, the handbook is intended to assist "officers in broadening their outlook and in resolving many practical problems related to the training and education of subordinates."
The Soviet Officer's Handbook was translated and republished under the auspices of the United States Air Force.

✦ Table of Contents

1. The Foundations and Principles of Soviet Military Development
2. The CPSU and the Soviet Armed Forces
3. Marxist-Leninist Military Theory
   4.The Fundamentals of Military Psychology and Military Pedagogy
4. The Armed Forces of the USSR
5. The Military Profession
6. The Armies of the Warsaw Pact Countries
7. The Armed Forces of the Imperialist States
8. Science and Military Affairs
9. Weapons and Military Technology
10. The Essentials of Sanitation and Hygiene
11. General Reference Data

✦ Subjects

military, manual, history, USSR, Soviet