Author: Miroslav V. FicPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
The Moscow Peace Offensive and Its Revolutionary Potential: a Study in Political Dynamics
Author: Miroslav V. FicThe Moscow Peace Offensive and Its Revolutionary Potential
Author: Victor M. FicPublisher:
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Category : Communist strategy
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
External Research
Author: United States. Department of State. External Research DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
External Research List
Author: Soviet Disarmament Policy, 1917-1963
Author: External Research. ER List
Author: United States. Department of State. External Research DivisionPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy
Author: Peter WhitewoodPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350238953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This detailed study traces the history of the Soviet-Polish War (1919-20), the first major international clash between the forces of communism and anti-communism, and the impact this had on Soviet Russia in the years that followed. It reflects upon how the Bolsheviks fought not only to defend the fledgling Soviet state, but also to bring the revolution to Europe. Peter Whitewood shows that while the Red Army's rapid drive to the gates of Warsaw in summer 1920 raised great hopes for world revolution, the subsequent collapse of the offensive had a more striking result. The Soviet military and political leadership drew the mistaken conclusion that they had not been defeated by the Polish Army, but by the forces of the capitalist world Britain and France who were perceived as having directed the war behind-the-scenes. They were taken aback by the strength of the forces of counterrevolution and convinced they had been overcome by the capitalist powers. The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy reveals that in the aftermath of the catastrophe at Warsaw Lenin, Stalin and other senior Bolsheviks were convinced that another war against Poland and its capitalist backers was inevitable with this perpetual fear of war shaping the evolution of the early Soviet state. It also further encouraged the creation of a centralised and repressive one-party state and provided a powerful rationale for the breakneck industrialisation of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1920s. The Soviet leadership's central preoccupation in the 1930s was Nazi Germany; this book convincingly argues that Bolshevik perceptions of Poland and the capitalist world in the decade before were given as much significance and were ultimately crucial to the rise of Stalinism.
The Russian Institute, 1946-1959
Author: Columbia University. Russian InstitutePublisher:
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Russian Understanding of War
Author: Oscar JonssonPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626167346
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. While other books describe current Russian practice, Oscar Jonsson provides the long view to show how Russian military strategic thinking has developed from the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. He closely examines Russian primary sources including security doctrines and the writings and statements of Russian military theorists and political elites. What Jonsson reveals is that Russia's conception of the very nature of war is now changing, as Russian elites see information warfare and political subversion as the most important ways to conduct contemporary war. Since information warfare and political subversion are below the traditional threshold of armed violence, this has blurred the boundaries between war and peace. Jonsson also finds that Russian leaders have, particularly since 2011/12, considered themselves to be at war with the United States and its allies, albeit with non-violent means. This book provides much needed context and analysis to be able to understand recent Russian interventions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, how to deter Russia on the eastern borders of NATO, and how the West must also learn to avoid inadvertent escalation.
Author: Columbia University