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Title: Claws Of The Bear: The History Of The Red Army From The Revolution To The Present
Author: Brian Moynahan
Format: Hardcover, No. Pages: 468
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, ISBN: 0395510767, Year: 1989
The modern Soviet army is the most powerful enterprise on earth. As the sun sets over the radar crews of Kamchatka, across the Bering Sea from Alaska, it rises on divisions barracked on the formerly German soil of Kaliningrad. Between these extremities of the eastern and western hemispheres, the army supports a political system and a superpower. The desertion of Russian soldiers from the czar in 1917 helped create, amid a swirling civil war, the world's first communist state in a giant country that neither Marx nor Lenin had thought ripe for revolution. In the greatest battles of the Second World War, the Red Army broke the back of Nazism. After the war it brought communism and a new order to the heartland of Europe. It has maintained that order ever since, despite the tragic Hungarian and Czech revolts. The projection of Soviet power is now global.
In this, the most authoritative general study of Soviet strength, Brian Moynahan reveals the present status of this military colossus, its hardware, the ethos of its officers and men, its strategy and ambitions, and its clouded relations with Gorbachev. This wealth of detail is set in the compulsive sweep of history. Gorbachev's sacking of senior officers is seen against the horrors of the Purges; current military-industrial strength against the freezing, roofless factories of 1942; the invasion of Afghanistan against the crushing of Prague.
Trotsky, Stalin, Beria, Zhukov. Khrushchev, Dubcek, and Walesa haunt these pages, as they haunt the new generation in the Kremlin. Claws of the Bear is drawn from a wide variety of published and unpublished sources and from interviews with former members of the Soviet armed forces times...
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- Publication date1988
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- ISBN 13 9780395510766
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