ABSTRACT
The modern Soviet Navy represents a remarkable organizational and industrial achievement, and the Soviets have every reason to be proud. The years since 1956 have witnessed what the Soviets have been pleased to call "the emergence of Soviet power." As in earlier attempts by other countries to dominate the continent, the Soviets have made a determined effort to build a powerful navy. The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 was, in many respects, a replay of the Crimean War. World War I caught the Russian Navy in the middle of a building program designed to replace the losses of the last war. The harsh naval discipline in the Russian Navy and proximity to the revolutionary movement in Petrograd had long made the Baltic Fleet a fertile area for propaganda and agitation, and mutinous sailors were prominent in the 1917 revolution. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 brought about the Russian-Soviet Navy's sixth humiliation, this time at the hands of the US Navy.
