By Richard Overy
ISBN-10: 0140271694
ISBN-13: 9780140271690
"Russia's conflict" is the epic account of the best army stumble upon in human heritage. In a brilliant, usually surprising narrative, Richard Overy describes the mind-blowing occasions of 1941-45 within which the Soviet Union, after preliminary catastrophes, destroyed Hitler's 3rd Reich and formed eu historical past for the following part Century.
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The preliminaries would be fought out at or near the frontier by strong covering forces operating behind fixed fortified areas, while the slow process of mobilizing the mass peasant-worker army went on at a prudent distance from the front until it was ready to rain shattering blows on the enemy on the other side of the border. The mass offensive had more of the steamroller about it than Tukhachevsky's fast-moving juggernaut, but the shape of the strategy was not dissimilar. The difference lay with the idea of ‘deep operations’.
In January 1925 Trotsky was removed from his position as Chairman of the Military Council and Commissar for the Army and Navy, and Frunze took his place. Though he held office for only ten months, until his death in October, Frunze achieved a great deal. Frunze's view of the armed forces represented a compromise between those who saw them as an instrument of revolution, to be led by Communists and composed of a proletarian militia, and those like Tukhachevsky who favoured large professional armed forces equipped with modern weapons and free from political supervision.
Lenin expressed open doubts in his testament as to whether Stalin could use ‘power with sufficient caution’, but he does not seem to have hesitated over Stalin's commitment to the cause. ’29 Stalin was unashamedly ruthless all his life; his egotism persuaded him that he was indispensable to the survival of Lenin's revolution. Power for himself was power to pursue his own narrow vision of what that revolution constituted. Stalin was the driving force behind the ‘Second Revolution’.
Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
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