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The Soviet Military Experience : A History of the Soviet Army, 1917-1991 (Warfare and History)
The Soviet Military Experience A History of the Soviet Army 19171991 - Warfare and History Author:Roger R. Reese From its revolutionary inception in 1917 to its demise in 1991, the Red Army played a crucial role in all aspects of Soviet life. The Soviet Military Experience is the first general work to place the Soviet army into its true social, political and international contexts. This timely account includes discussion of: the origins of the Workers' and... more » Peasants' Red Army; the Bolshevik regime's use of the military as a school of socialism; the Second World War and its repercussions; and the effect of Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika.« less