Forging Stalin's Army: Marshal Tukhachevsky And The Politics Of Military Innovation - Hardcover

Stoecker, Sally W

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813334101 ISBN 13: 9780813334103

Publisher: Westview Press, 1998

Synopsis

This innovative study examines the early years of the Red Army as it developed from a revolutionary partisan force into a modern, professional institution under the leadership of Mikhail Tukhachevsky, an important and controversial figure in the politics of the Stalin period. Sally Stoecker combines her institutional analysis of the formative period of the Soviet military with an astute look at the person and political maneuvers of Marshal Tukhachevsky and his complex relationship with Stalin, which eventually led to his spectacular downfall and execution in the Great Terror of the late 1930s.Based on newly available archival materials, the book will be welcomed not only by military historians but also by Russian historians for the light it sheds on a vital area of Soviet political history.

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About the Author

Sally W. Stoecker is Research Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She is also project coordinator at American University's Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (Traccc) and an executive editor of the journal Demokratizatsiya.

Edition details

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0813334101
• ISBN 13: 9780813334103
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 232