Plans for Stalin's War-Machine: Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925-1941

By Lennart Samuelson

In the interwar period, Red Army commanders headed by Tukhachevskii developed a new doctrine of mobile warfare and 'deep operations'. The military requirements of armaments and industrial production in the event of war was a central parameter in Stalinist industrialization. Based on recently opened Russian archives, the book analyzes military dimensions of Soviet long-term economic and military reconstruction plans from the mid-1920s until 1941. It presents a new framework for estimating the Soviet war-economic preparations, drastically underestimated by contemporaries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333710754
• ISBN13: 9780333710753
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"