✍ Scribed by Roger R. Reese
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Dr. Reese does an outstanding job in finding the middleground between the political, operational, and anecdotal history of the Soviet military. An immense amount of knowledge is ably condensed into a relatively swift read and his analysis of the early years of the Red Army is especially well done. The only book is only lacking in its examination of the mid-late Cold War years, which he covers very fast, but all in all a very good book, a must-read for anyone interested in the USSR's military history.
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 9
List of abbreviations......Page 10
List of Russian words and phrases......Page 11
Map......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
The birth of the Red Army......Page 20
The Civil War, and Polish-Soviet War, 1917 21......Page 39
The Red Army between the wars, 1922 39......Page 65
PUR and the Army: the political side of military service......Page 84
The Red Army and the Second World War, 1939 45......Page 106
The cold war years, 1946 91......Page 151
The war in Afghanistan and the Gorbachev era, 1979 91......Page 176
Conclusion......Page 197
Notes......Page 199
Select bibliography......Page 213
Index......Page 216
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