Plans for Stalin's war machine : Tukhachevskii and military-economic planning, 1925-1941

Plans for Stalin's war machine : Tukhachevskii and military-economic planning, 1925-1941 /

"Stalinist industrialisation concentrated on the heavy and machine-building sectors, with the frank aim of strengthening defence capacity. Using the opened archives in Russia, this is the first study of the involvement of Red Army officials in the central planning organ, Gosplan. It links the m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samuelson, Lennart
Corporate Author: Soviet Union. Gosudarstvennai︠a︡ planovai︠a︡ komissii︠a︡. Sektor oborony
Other Authors: Shlykov, Vitaly V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York : Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Series:Studies in Russian and East European history and society
Subjects:
Tukhachevskiĭ, M. N. > (Mikhail Nikolaevich), > 1893-1937
Military-industrial complex > Soviet Union > History.
Industrial mobilization > Soviet Union > History.
Military planning > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1917-1936.
Soviet Union > Military policy
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Vitalii Shlykov
  • 1. Visions of Future War
  • 2. Organising for Modern Total War, 1921-8
  • 3. Launching the First Five-Year Plan
  • 4. Radical Reconsiderations, 1930-1
  • 5. Changing Military Requirements, 1931-2
  • 6. New Threat Assessments and War Plans, 1933-6
  • 7. Plans for Red Army Expansion, 1933-7
  • 8. Economic Planning in Terror and War, 1937-41
  • Conclusion: Soviet economic war-preparedness in the interwar period
  • App. 1. Historiographical Notes on Tukhachevskii in the early 1930s
  • App. 2. Military Involvement in Economic Planning and Mobilisation.

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