The Soviet Military Experience: A History of the Soviet Army, 1917-1991

by Roger R. Reese

Book Overview

The Soviet Military Experience is the first general work to place the Soviet army into its true social, political and international contexts.
It focuses on the Bolshevik Party's intention to create an army of a new type, whose aim was both to defend the people and propagate Marxist ideals to the rest of the world. It includes discussion of the:
* origins of the Workers and Peasant's Red Army
* effects of the Civil War
* Bolshevik regime's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415217199
• ISBN13: 9780415217194
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"