ABSTRACT
An objective and documentary history of the earliest origins and formative years of the Workers-Peasants Red Army from the Civil War to the initial disasters of the war with Germany, the Great Patriotic War, culminating in the "battle for Moscow" in November-December 1941.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART ONE The Revolutionary Military Command, 1918-1920
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PART TWO Military Debates and Political Derisions, 1921-1926
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PART THREE Foreign Adventures and Strategic Priorities
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PART FOUR The Politics of Mechanisation
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PART FIVE The Military Purge and the Reconstruction of the Command
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PART SIX The Beginning of the Ordeal, 1941