Stalin's Generals - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1842125133 ISBN 13 : 9781842125137

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson History, 2001

Synopsis

Most military history deals in the big picture; the movements of armies, the strategy of campaigns. But the training, experience and personalities of the generals themselves, and the nature of their relations with their peers and political leaders, can be unexpectedly illuminating, going well beyond Tolstoy's musings about the effects of Napoleon's cold in the head. This is particularly true in the case of Stalin's generals. How could Soviet generals, whose independent judgement was essential to success, stand up to a bloodthirsty dictator who was ignorant of military skill? Dr Harold Shukman, author and editor of books on the Russian Revolution, has assembled an international group of distinguished military historians. Their portraits of some twenty-five generals - and a final chapter on those who were purged in 1937-38, 'Stalin's Ghosts' - throw light on the relations between a new military elite and a totalitarian leader, at a time when the very existence of the Soviet state was in the balance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Harold Shukman is an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, where he was for a number of years Director of the Russian and East European Centre and University Lecturer in Modern Russian History. He edited and translated Dmitri Volkogonov's Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy (1991), Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary (1996), and The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire (1998).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1842125133
• ISBN 13: 9781842125137
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Éditeur: Shukman Harold
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