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• Battle casualties [Browse]
• Life [Browse]
• Prisoners of war—Soviet Union—History [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Armed Forces—Medical care—History [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Military policy [Browse]

Summary note

This is a key question for all Western military strategists. If the Soviets are indeed willing to tolerate high human sacrifice in warfare this obviously puts them at a military advantage. The perceived wisdom, hitherto, is that the Soviets are indeed willing to tolerate high casualties in battle - this, initial, view is reinforced by myths about Stalin clearing minefields by marching penal battalions across them. Professor Sella, however, comes to a different conclusion. He surveys Soviet attitudes to the military-medical service; to its own prisoners of war; and to the ethos

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Contents

• The value of human life in Soviet warfare; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Soviet Military Medical Service; Introduction; The history of the Service; The Military Medical Service after the Revolution; The first tests of fire; The Molotav-Ribbentrop Pact-an interregnum; The composition of the Military Medical Service; Chapter 2 The performance of the Service during the Great Patriotic War; Introduction; Medical theory under fire; Reorganization and coordination; The Air Force; The Navy; Medicine and voluntarism on the home front-the 'rear'
• Women's health Disease and epidemics; The policy of medical staff replenishment; Assessment of Soviet casualties in the Great Patriotic War; An assessment of Soviet medical treatment; The contemporary Military Medical Service; Chapter 3 The Soviet attitude to POW's; Introduction; The changing attitude to the status of POW's; The legal legacy of the Soviet Armed Forces; The Soviet Government's wartime attitude to its POW's; Order No. 270; Analysis of the effects of Order No. 270; The attitude on the battlefield; The diplomatic struggle during the war; The situation towards the end of the war
• The roots of the Cold War The Vlasov case; POW's on the international agenda after the war; POWs in Afghanistan; Chapter 4 Fighting at all costs; Introduction; Military experience after the Revolution: discipline and morale through education; Morale and discipline in the Great Patriotic War; An assessment of the Soviet attitude to the cost of fighting; A new strategy for the 1990's and beyond; Chapter 5Conclusion: the value of human life in Soviet warfare; The fire power/manoeuvre component of the equation; A behavioural observation: the rationale of fighting armies
• Compassion and the utilitarian approach Notes; Bibliography; Index

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ISBN

• 1-134-97464-7
• 1-283-64218-2
• 1-134-97465-5
• 1-282-37390-0
• 9786612373909
• 0-203-99133-8

OCLC

• 475953991
• 61362572
• 23941338

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203991336

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