Red Commanders

Red Commanders
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Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015062566040
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Synopsis Red Commanders by : Roger R. Reese

One of the largest and most feared military forces in the world, the Red Army was a key player in advancing the cause of Soviet socialism. Rising out of revolutionary-era citizen militias, it aspired to the greatness needed to confront its Cold War adversaries but was woefully unprepared to change with the times. In this first comprehensive study of the Soviet officer corps, Roger Reese traces the history of the Red Army from Civil War triumph through near-decimation in World War II and demoralizing quagmire in Afghanistan to the close scrutiny it came under during Gorbachev's reform era. Reese takes readers inside the Red Army to reconstruct the social and institutional dynamics that shaped its leadership and effectiveness over seventy-three years. He depicts the lives of these officers by revealing their class origins, life experiences, party loyalty, and attitudes toward professionalism. He tells how these men were shaped by Russian culture and Soviet politics—and how the Communist Party dominated every aspect of their careers but never allowed them the autonomy they needed to cultivate a high level of military effectiveness. Despite its struggle to develop and maintain professionalism, the officer corps was often hampered by factors inextricably intertwined with the Soviet state: Marxist theory, revolutionary ideology, friction between party and non-party members, and the influence of the army's political administration organs. Reese shows that by rejecting the Western bourgeois model of military professionalism the state greatly limited its officer corps' ability to develop a more effective military. While a sense of group identity emerged among officers after World War II, it quickly lost relevance in the face of postwar challenges, especially the war in Afghanistan, which underscored fatal flaws in command leadership. Red Commanders offers new insight into the workings of a military giant and also restores Leon Trotsky to his rightful place in Soviet military history by featuring his ideas on building a new army from the ground up. It is an important look behind the scenes at a military establishment that continues to face leadership challenges in Russia today.

Notes of a Red Guard

Notes of a Red Guard
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 0252062779
ISBN-13 : 9780252062773
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Notes of a Red Guard by : Eduard Martynovich Dune

This compelling never-before-published account takes the reader into Red Guard and Red Army units, Moscow factories, workers' homes, and to the unfamiliar world of feudal Dagestan. Worker-revolutionary Eduard Dune was seventeen when the Russian revolution began. He joined the Bolshevik party and fought with the Moscow Red Guard during the October revolution. Notes of a Red Guard is his candid account of what happened through 1921. This uncensored account offers a rare glimpse of revolutionary Russia from the perspective of an educated, skilled worker who became a rank-and-file participant.

The Commanders

The Commanders
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780806160924
ISBN-13 : 0806160926
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis The Commanders by : Robert M. Utley

Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post–Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven military leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as brigadier generals in command of the U.S. Army’s western departments. By examining both periods in their careers, Utley makes a unique contribution in delineating these commanders’ strengths and weaknesses. While some of the book’s subjects—notably Generals George Crook and Nelson A. Miles—are well known, most are no longer widely remembered. Yet their actions were critical in the expansion of federal control in the West. The commanders effected the final subjugation of American Indian tribal groups, exercising direct oversight of troops in the field as they fought the wars that would bring Indians under military and government control. After introducing readers to postwar army doctrine, organization, and administration, Utley takes each general in turn, describing his background, personality, eccentricities, and command style and presenting the rudiments of the campaigns he prosecuted. Crook embodied the ideal field general, personally leading his troops in their operations, though with varying success. Christopher C. Augur and John Pope, in contrast, preferred to command from their desks in department headquarters, an approach that led both of them to victory on the battlefield. And Miles, while perhaps the frontier army’s most detestable officer, was also its most successful in the field. Rounding out the book with an objective comparison of all eight generals’ performance records, Utley offers keen insights into their influence on the U.S. military as an institution and on the development of the American West.

Commanders Digest

Commanders Digest
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Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : CUB:U183019886502
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Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

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Hitler's Commanders

Hitler's Commanders
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Publisher : Frontline Books
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781848327368
ISBN-13 : 1848327366
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Hitler's Commanders by : James Lucas

As absolute as Hitler's control over the German war machine was, it depended on the ability, judgment and unquestioning loyalty of the senior officers charged with putting his ideas, however difficult, into effect. Top military historian James Lucas examines the stories of fourteen of these men: all of different rank, from varied backgrounds, and highly awarded, they exemplify German military prowess at its most dangerous. Among his subjects are Eduard Dietl, the commander of German forces in Norway and Eastern Europe; Werner Kampf, one of the most successful Panzer commanders of the war; and Kurt Meyer, commander of the Hitler Youth Division and one of Germany's youngest general officers. The author, one of the leading experts on all aspects of German military conduct of the Second World War, offers the reader a rare look into the nature of the German Army _ a curious mix of individual strength, petty officialdom and pragmatic action.

Commanders Call

Commanders Call
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Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000090250535
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Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

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Soviet Russia Pictorial

Soviet Russia Pictorial
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Total Pages : 860
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015008494489
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Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

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Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority

Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 0674145356
ISBN-13 : 9780674145351
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority by : Timothy J. Colton

For six decade the Soviet system has been immune to military rebellion and takeover, which often characterizes modernizing countries. How can we explain the stability of Soviet military politics, asks Timothy Colton in his compelling interpretation of civil-military relations in the Soviet Union. Hitherto most western scholars have posited a basic dichotomy of interests between the Soviet army and the Communist party. They view the two institutions as conflictprone, with civilian supremacy depending primarily upon the party's control of officers through its organs within the military establishment. Colton challenges this thesis and argues that the military party organs have come to possess few of the attributes of an effective controlling device, and that the commissars and their heirs have operated as allies rather than adversaries of the military commanders. In explaining the extraordinary stability in army-party relations in terms of overlapping interests rather than controlling mechanisms, Colton offers a major case study and a new model to students of comparative military politics.

The Nineteenth Century

The Nineteenth Century
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Total Pages : 1058
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ISBN-10 : EHC:148101067050X
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Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

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The Twentieth Century

The Twentieth Century
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Total Pages : 1060
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B522480
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Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

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