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.
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Outstanding classic history of Red Army from it's origins to WWII,
This review is from: The Soviet High Command: a Military-political History, 1918-1941: A Military Political History, 1918-1941 (Soviet (Russian) Military Experience Series) (Hardcover)
The so called review by "Devls Advocate" (sic) is propaganda. "The Soviet High Command" by John Erickson is still THE history of the Red Army, from it's origins up to WWII, by which others are measured. Alongside Erickson's 2-volume history of the war in the Eastern Front ("The Road to Stalingrad"; "The Road to Berlin") this book continues to be a first reference for those seriously interested in the history of early Soviet military affairs. Erickson work is based on an enormous amount of research (as is the case with his 2-volume history of the war in the Eastern Front) based on primary documentary sources. Since first published, particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union, much new information has become available, but despite this, Erickson's history still stands up remarkably well.
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This is Soviet propganda, not history!,
By Devl's Advocate "RSHA" (Hlle) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Soviet High Command: a Military-political History, 1918-1941: A Military Political History, 1918-1941 (Soviet (Russian) Military Experience Series) (Hardcover)
Erickson, a notorious communist and bogus half baked historian is not to be trusted with his works, all based on bogus, doctored and unrelaible Soviet semi fictions intended to advance the cause of Bolshevik invincability.
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In the revolutionary year 1917, by casting off authority and abandoning discipline, the Imperial Russian Army carried through a mutiny of such vast proportion that no military or political group could either control it or be held responsible for the final disintegration. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mechanised unities, elective command, naval commissariat, new command group, mechanised corps, rarmement clandestin, tactical peculiarities, unitary command, unified military doctrine, armoured group, armaments base, strategic cavalry, rifle divisions, mechanised formations, military commissar, mechanised troops, military purge, grazhdanskoi voiny, combat regulations, military soviet, mechanised brigades, motorised troops, fortified districts, formal military education, political staff Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soviet Union, Far East, Central Committee, Soviet Russia, Chiang Kai-shek, Black Sea, Baltic Fleet, Party Congress, Communist Party, Great Britain, Outer Mongolia, Southern Front, Northern Front, Kwantung Army, Army Group Centre, Maritime Provinces, Lake Ladoga, Leningrad Military District, European Russia, German Navy, World War, Chinese Eastern Railway, Congress of Soviets, Field Staff, Army Group South New!
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In the revolutionary year 1917, by casting off authority and abandoning discipline, the Imperial Russian Army carried through a mutiny of such vast proportion that no military or political group could either control it or be held responsible for the final disintegration. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mechanised unities, elective command, naval commissariat, new command group, mechanised corps, rarmement clandestin, tactical peculiarities, unitary command, unified military doctrine, armoured group, armaments base, strategic cavalry, rifle divisions, mechanised formations, military commissar, mechanised troops, military purge, grazhdanskoi voiny, combat regulations, military soviet, mechanised brigades, motorised troops, fortified districts, formal military education, political staff Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soviet Union, Far East, Central Committee, Soviet Russia, Chiang Kai-shek, Black Sea, Baltic Fleet, Party Congress, Communist Party, Great Britain, Outer Mongolia, Southern Front, Northern Front, Kwantung Army, Army Group Centre, Maritime Provinces, Lake Ladoga, Leningrad Military District, European Russia, German Navy, World War, Chinese Eastern Railway, Congress of Soviets, Field Staff, Army Group South New!
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