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Soviet Military Doctrine from Lenin to Gorbachev, 1915-1991 (Hardcover, New)
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Soviet Military Doctrine from Lenin to Gorbachev, 1915-1991 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Contributions in Military Studies
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The more uncertain the developments in Russia and the rest of the
former Soviet Union become, the more urgent is the need to
understand Soviet military thinking over 75-year span of Soviet
history. Although other books discuss various aspects of Soviet
military thought, this study by senior scholars more thoroughly
combines the perspectives of history and the social sciences to
understand Soviet military doctrine, experience, and tendencies
from its birth with Lenin's militarization of Marxism in 1915 to
the far-reaching changes introduced by Gorbachev--with all the
attendant dilemmas and tensions up to the coup and revolutionary
upheavals of 1991. This appraisal of the Soviet way of war is
significant for scholars and professionals in Soviet studies,
military affairs, and international politics. This collection shows
how ideology, technology, experience, and personalities have shaped
Soviet military doctrine since the Bolshevik Revolution. This study
defines the shifting interplay of defensive and offensive
strategies at different times, various policies for dealing with
perceived threats of nuclear or conventional war, and reviews
current discussions and future policy directions. First, the book
describes the form and content of Soviet military doctrine from
Lenin's creation of its premises in 1915 until Gorbachev's
refutation of these premises in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Next, the book examines Soviet military thinking in light of the
experiences of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the episodes
of the interwar years, World War II, and the Cold War. The book
then assesses the key issues that have marked the changing
political and military landscape in the last years ofthe pre-coup
Soviet Union. Included is the text of the last full statement of
Soviet military doctrine before the coup and the breakup of the old
Soviet Union. Finally, the book presents a window into the enduring
proclivities of the Soviet/Russian way of war to provide a context
for meeting the future and tempering its uncertainties. A
concluding bibliographical essay points to significant literature
on Soviet military doctrine.
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