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Structure of Strategic Revolution: Total War and the Roots of the Soviet Warfare State Hardcover – October 1, 1994

by James J. Schneider (Author)
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Shows how the Soviet security apparatus evolved & how the warfare state was achieved by Stalin; he created a warfare state that, taken in its totality, left no part of life in the Soviet Union untouched. Schneider offers important new insights into the strategic revolution of the 19th century that resulted from the Industrial Revolution, providing the technological means & industrial capacity for nations to wage total war. Also shows how the success of Stalin s revolution from above created the conditions that ultimately made the historic achievement of Mikhail Gorbachev s reforms possible.
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  1. Print length
    334 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Presidio Press
  4. Publication date
    October 1, 1994
  5. ISBN-10
    0788158384
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0788158384
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Presidio Press; First Edition (October 1, 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 334 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0788158384
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0788158384
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.55 pounds
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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Bayard B.
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! Discusses Soviet military and ideological thinking behind the warfare or garrison state.
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2020
This is one of the better books that discusses both the professional military and the Marxist ideological thinking (as adapted by Lenin and Stalin) behind the Soviet warfare or garrison state. The first two chapters (80+ pages) discuss European thinking on the subject of war in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This then leads to the concept of a nation's total war capability: civilian, political, and industrial and total economic mobilization to support the military.

The book then discusses the warfare theories developed by Frunze, Svechin, Triandafillov, Tukhachevsky, Stalin, Shaposhnikov, and others. In a way, its kind of amazing that the Soviet political and military leadership could develop such theories. At the time (1920s, early 1930s) the USSR was poorly developed industrially. The determination of Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party in general led to a militarized economy that lasted until the demise of the USSR in the early 1990s. Of course, there is much argument now that the massive devotion of economic resources to the militarized economy played a major role in the demise of the USSR. But that is another fascinating story.

The book does not discuss details of the Five Year Plans that led to the military industrialization of the USSR.
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