Stalin's Reluctant Soldier: A Social History of the Red Army, 1925-1941

by Roger R. Reese

Under Joseph Stalin's iron-fisted rule, the Soviet state tried to forge an army that would be both a shining example of proletarian power and an indomitable deterrent against fascist aggression. In reality, Roger Reese reveals, Stalin's grand military experiment failed miserably on both counts before it was finally rescued within the crucible of war.

Reese greatly expands our understanding of the Red Army's evolution during the 1930s and its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700607722
• ISBN13: 9780700607723
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.7" x 9.3"