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Subject(s)

• Military-industrial complex—Soviet Union—History [Browse]
• Industrial mobilization—Soviet Union—History [Browse]
• Military planning—Soviet Union—History [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Politics and government—1917-1936 [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Military policy [Browse]
• Tukhachevskiĭ, M. N. (Mikhail Nikolaevich) 1893-1937 [Browse]

Related name

• Soviet Union. Gosudarstvennai︠a︡ planovai︠a︡ komissii︠a︡. Sektor oborony [Browse]
• Shlykov, Vitaly V. [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Russian and East European history and society [More in this series]
• [Studies in Russian & East European history & society]

Summary note

"Stalinist industrialisation concentrated on the heavy and machine-building sectors, with the frank aim of strengthening defence capacity. Using the opened archives in Russia, this is the first study of the involvement of Red Army officials in the central planning organ, Gosplan. It links the military's vision of future war, formulated by the leading military theoretician Mikhail Tukhachevskii (1893-1937) in the theory of 'deep operations', with the investment patterns of the 5-year plans. On a regular basis and parallel to peacetime plans. Gosplan's Defence Sector, with its many military experts, formulated alternative plans for the event of war. These plans and mobilization requirements as specified for branches and individual enterprises show a new dimension of the pre-war Soviet economy, and give a background to the wartime success of the Red Army despite its catastrophic setbacks in 1941."--BOOK JACKET.

Notes

Contains plans of the Defence Sector of the Soviet State Planning Commission.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-261) and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Vitalii Shlykov
• 1. Visions of Future War
• 2. Organising for Modern Total War, 1921-8
• 3. Launching the First Five-Year Plan
• 4. Radical Reconsiderations, 1930-1
• 5. Changing Military Requirements, 1931-2
• 6. New Threat Assessments and War Plans, 1933-6
• 7. Plans for Red Army Expansion, 1933-7
• 8. Economic Planning in Terror and War, 1937-41
• App. 1. Historiographical Notes on Tukhachevskii in the early 1930s
• App. 2. Military Involvement in Economic Planning and Mobilisation.

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ISBN

• 031222527X ((cloth))
• 9780312225278 ((cloth))
• 0333710754
• 9780333710753

LCCN

99014622

OCLC

41026408

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