ABSTRACT
This book aims to furnish a history of the origins and development of Soviet military leadership, together with a survey of its relations with the Communist Party and the governmental apparatus, within the chronological limits of the first attempts to organise the Red Army and a military command.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|88 pages
The Revolutionary Military Command, 1918–1920
part Two|103 pages
Military Debates and Political Decisions, 1921-1926
part Three|108 pages
Foreign Adventures and Strategic Priorities
part Four|124 pages
The Politics of Mechanisation
part Five|115 pages
The Military Purge and the Reconstruction of the Command
part Six|106 pages
The Beginning of the Ordeal: 1941