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The war on the Eastern Front during 1941-45 was an immense
struggle, running from the Barents Sea to the Caucasus Mountains.
The vast distances involved forced the Soviet political-military
leadership to resort to new organizational expedients in order to
control operations along the extended front. These were the high
commands of the directions, which were responsible for two or more
fronts (army groups) and, along maritime axes, one or more fleets.
In all, five high commands were created along the northwestern,
western, southwestern, and North Caucasus strategic directions
during 1941-42. However, the highly unfavourable strategic
situation during the first year of the war, as well as interference
in day-to-day operations by Stalin, severely limited the high
commands' effectiveness. As a consequence, the high commands were
abolished in mid-1942 and replaced by the more flexible system of
supreme command representatives at the front. A High Command of
Soviet Forces in the Far East was established in 1945 and oversaw
the Red Army's highly effective campaign against Japanese forces in
Manchuria. The Far Eastern High Command was briefly resurrected in
1947 as a response to the tense situation along the Korean
peninsula and the ongoing civil war in China, but was abolished in
1953, soon after Stalin's death. Growing tensions with China
brought about the recreation of the Far Eastern High Command in
1979, followed a few years later by the appearance of new high
commands in Europe and South Asia. However, these new high commands
did not long survive the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and
were abolished a year later. The book relies almost exclusively on
Soviet and post-communist archival and other sources and is the
first unclassified treatment of this subject in any country, East
or West.
The Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th
century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose
outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime
within the former Russian Empire. As such, it commands the
attention of the military specialist and layman alike as we mark
the one hundredth anniversary of the war's end. This work is the
third volume of the three-volume Soviet official history of the
Russian Civil War, which appeared during 1928-1930, just before the
imposition of Stalinist orthodoxy. While the preceding volumes
focused on the minutiae of the Red Army's organizational
development and military art, this volume provides an in-depth
description and analysis of the of the civil war's major operations
along the numerous fronts, from the North Caucasus, the Don and
Volga rivers, the White Sea area, the Baltic States and Ukraine, as
well as Siberia and Poland. It also offers a well-argued case for
the political reasons behind the Bolsheviks' military strategy and
eventual success against their White opponents. And while it is a
certainly a partisan document with a definite political bias, it is
at the same time a straightforward military history that manages to
avoid many of the hoary myths that later came to dominate the
subject. As such, it is easily the most objective account of the
struggle to emerge from the Soviet Union before the collapse of the
communist system in 1991.
The humanities in American higher education is in a state of crisis
with declining student enrollment, fewer faculty positions, and
diminishing public prestige. Instead of recycling old arguments
that have lost their appeal, the humanities must discover and
articulate new rationales for their value to students, faculty,
administrators, and the public. Why the Humanities Matter Today: In
Defense of Liberal Education is an attempt to do so by having
philosophers, literature and foreign language professors,
historians, and political theorists defend the value and explain
the worth of their respective disciplines as well as illuminate the
importance of liberal education. By setting forth new arguments
about the significance of their disciplines, these scholars show
how the humanities can reclaim its place of prominence in American
higher education.
The humanities in American higher education is in a state of crisis
with declining student enrollment, fewer faculty positions, and
diminishing public prestige. Instead of recycling old arguments
that have lost their appeal, the humanities must discover and
articulate new rationales for their value to students, faculty,
administrators, and the public. Why the Humanities Matter Today: In
Defense of Liberal Education is an attempt to do so by having
philosophers, literature and foreign language professors,
historians, and political theorists defend the value and explain
the worth of their respective disciplines as well as illuminate the
importance of liberal education. By setting forth new arguments
about the significance of their disciplines, these scholars show
how the humanities can reclaim its place of prominence in American
higher education.
The proposed book investigates brain asymmetry from the perspective
of functional neural systems theory, a foundational approach for
the topic. There is currently no such book available on the market
and there is a need for a neuroscience book, with a focus on the
functional asymmetry of these two integrated and
dynamic brains using historical and modern clinical and
experimental research findings with the field. The book provides
evidence from multiple methodologies, including clinical lesion
studies, brain stimulation, and modern imaging techniques.
The author has successfully used the book in doctoral and advances
undergraduate courses on neuroscience and neuropsychology.Â
It has also been used to teach a course on the biological basis of
behavior and could be used in a variety of contexts and courses.
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Georgii Samoilovich Isserson (1898-1976) was one of the most
prescient and prolific authors on military science in the years
preceding World War II. His theories greatly influenced the Red
Army's operations and were instrumental in achieving victory over
Germany. This book gathers together for the first time English
translations of Isserson's most influential works, including some
that are still classified. His writings on the preparation and
conduct of ""deep operations""--the deployment of tanks, mechanized
infantry, air power and airborne troops to penetrate echeloned
defenses-also serve as a primer on how to construct a position to
defeat such an attack. His well argued defense of deep operations
based on an examination of later wars, and his reminiscences about
the people and events that shaped Soviet military theory in the
1930s are included.
The proposed book investigates brain asymmetry from the perspective
of functional neural systems theory, a foundational approach for
the topic. There is currently no such book available on the market
and there is a need for a neuroscience book, with a focus on the
functional asymmetry of these two integrated and dynamic brains
using historical and modern clinical and experimental research
findings with the field. The book provides evidence from multiple
methodologies, including clinical lesion studies, brain
stimulation, and modern imaging techniques. The author has
successfully used the book in doctoral and advances undergraduate
courses on neuroscience and neuropsychology. It has also been used
to teach a course on the biological basis of behavior and could be
used in a variety of contexts and courses.
The Red Army's leading operational theorist in the 1930s, Georgii
Samoilovich Isserson is perhaps best known as the mastermind behind
the "deep operation," which became the cornerstone of Soviet
offensive operations in World War II. Drawing from an in-depth
analysis of Isserson's numerous published and unpublished works,
his arrest file in the former KGB archives, and interviews with his
family, this book provides the first full-length biography of a man
usually overlooked by contemporary historians. Two chapters are
devoted to the first 30 years of Isserson's life, but the bulk of
the narrative deals with the flowering of his intellectual talents
from 1929 through 1941. Additional chapters deal with Isserson's
arrest and his remaining 35 years, 14 of which were spent in labor
camps and internal exile.
Cumulative Prospect Theory is a popular model of risk preferences
in behavioral economics and generally proposed as a better
descriptive model than alternatives, and as an inferior normative
model to guide risky decisions. Models of Risk Preferences collects
studies that critically review these claims from the perspective of
experimental economics. The Research in Experimental Economics
series focuses on experimental and empirical investigations into
both the economic effects of the law and how economic theories can
explain the behavior of individuals within a legal system.
The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and
Counter- Offensive, July-August 1943, offers a peculiarly Soviet
view of one of the Second World War's most critical events. While
the Germans defeats at Moscow and Stalingrad showed that Hitler
could not win the war in the East, the outcome of Kursk
demonstrated beyond a doubt that he would lose it. This study was
compiled by the Red Army General Staff's military-historical
directorate, which was charged with collecting and analyzing the
war's experience, and issued as an internal document in 1946-47.
The study languished for more than a half-century, before being
published in Russia in 2006, although heavily supplemented by
commentary and other information not contained in the original. The
present work omits these additions, while supplying its own
commentary in places deemed necessary. The book is divided into two
parts, dealing with the defensive and offensive phases of the
battle, respectively. The first begins with a strategic overview of
the situation along the Eastern Front by the spring and summer of
1943 and the Soviet decision to stand on the defensive. This is
followed by a detailed examination of the Central Front's efforts
to counter the expected German attack out of the Orel salient, and
the Voronezh Front's attempts to do the same against the German
concentrations in the Belgorod-Khar'kov area. The rest of this
section is devoted to an exceedingly detailed day-by-day,
tactical-operational account of the struggle, particularly along
the southern face of the salient, where the Germans came closest to
succeeding. The second part will be more of a revelation to the
Western reader, who is likely to be more familiar with the
defensive phase of the battle. Here the authors once again, in
great detail, lay out the Red Army's preparations for and conduct
of a massive counteroffensive to clear the Orel salient, which soon
degenerated to a grinding struggle, which while ultimately
successful, cost the Soviets dearly. Likewise, the authors detail
the Voronezh Front's preparations to reduce the Belgorod salient
and seize the industrial center of Khar'kov. This offensive, in
conjunction with a simultaneous offensive in the Donets industrial
region, pushed the German lines to the breaking point and set the
stage for the follow-on advance to the Dnepr River and the eventual
liberation of Ukraine.
In the first half of the twentieth century, both czarist Russia and
its successor, the Soviet Union, were confronted with the problem
of conducting military operations involving mass armies along the
broad fronts, a characteristic of modern war. Despite the
ideological and technological differences between the two regimes,
both strove toward a theory which became known as operational
art-that level of warfare that links strategic goals to actual
combat engagements.
From the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, through World War I,
the civil war, and to the eve of World War II, modern operational
art grew from theoretical speculations by a small group of officers
to become a critical component of the Soviet art of war. In this
first comprehensive treatment of the subject, Richard Harrison
shows how this theory emerged and developed to become--despite
radically different political settings and levels of
technology--essential to the Red Army's victory over Germany in
World War II.
Tracking both continuity and divergence between the imperial and
Red armies, Harrison analyzes, on the basis of theoretical writings
and battlefield performance, the development of such operationally
significant phenomena as the "front" (group of armies), consecutive
operations, and the deep operation, which relied upon aircraft and
mechanized formations to penetrate the kind of intractable defense
systems that characterized so much of World War I.
Drawing upon a wide range of sources, including memoirs,
theoretical works, and materials from the Russian military archives
(many presented here for the first time), Harrison traces the
debates within the Russian and Soviet armies that engaged such
theorists as Neznamov, Svechin, Triandafillov, and Isserson. The
end result is an exemplary military intellectual history that helps
illuminate a critical element in the "Russian way of war."
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