Plans for Stalin's War-Machine: Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925-1941

by L. Samuelson

Overview

In the interwar period, Red Army commanders headed by Tukhachevskii developed a new doctrine of mobile warfare and 'deep operations'. The military requirements of armaments and industrial production in the event of war was a central parameter in Stalinist industrialization. Based on recently opened Russian archives, the book analyzes military dimensions of Soviet long-term economic and military reconstruction plans from the mid-1920s until 1941. It presents a new framework for estimating the Soviet war-economic preparations, drastically underestimated by contemporaries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312225278
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/12/1999
Series:	Studies in Russian and East European History and Society
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

LENNART SAMUELSON acquired his academic training at the University of Skholm where he was Lecturer in Economic History. He received his Ph.D. in economic history at the Skholm School of Economics. He is Assistant Professor to the Institute for Research in Economic History and holds a research post at the National Defence College, Skholm.

Table of Contents

Visions of Future War
• Organizing for Modern Total War, 1912-28
• Launching the First Five-Year Plan
• Radical Reconsiderations, 1930-31
• Changing Military Requirements, 1931-32
• New Threat Assessments and War Plans, 1933-36
• Plans for Red Army Expansion, 1933-37
• Economic Planning in Terror and War, 1937-41

Editorial Reviews

“...a book of original and resourceful scholarship, where Samuelson has taken the first step into a new research field. It is to be recommended to anyone with the slightest interest in Soviet studies...” —Journal of Slavic Military Studies

“Armed with much new archival data, Lennart Samuelson offers us what turns out to be a very intricate story.” —American Historical Review

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