This book, based on extensive work in Russian archives,
investigates how strategy, organisational rivalry and cultural
factors came to shape naval developments in the Soviet Union, up to
the invasion of 1941. Focussing on the Baltic Fleet, the author
shows how the perceived balance of power in northern Europe came to
have a major influence on Soviet naval policy during the 1920s and
1930s. The operational environment of a narrow inland-sea like the
Baltic would have required a joint approach to military planning,
but the Soviet navy's weak position among the armed services made
such an approach hard to attain. The Soviet regime also struggled
against the cultural heritage of the tsarist navy and the book
describes how this was overcome. In a special Appendix dedicated to
the purges of 1937-38, surviving party records from the Baltic
Fleet Intelligence Section are used to illustrate the mechanisms of
the Great Terror at local level.
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