MACMILLAN Plans for Stalin's War-Machine: Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925-1941 (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society)

Product Description 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. Review ..".a book of original and resourceful scholarship, where Samuelson has taken the first step into a new research field. It is to be recommended to anyone with the slightest interest in Soviet studies..." --"Journal of Slavic Military Studies" "Armed with much new archival data, Lennart Samuelson offers us what turns out to be a very intricate story." --"American Historical Review" ."..a book of original and resourceful scholarship, where Samuelson has taken the first step into a new research field. It is to be recommended to anyone with the slightest interest in Soviet studies..." --"Journal of Slavic Military Studies" "Armed with much new archival data, Lennart Samuelson offers us what turns out to be a very intricate story." --"American Historical Review" “...a book of original and resourceful scholarship, where Samuelson has taken the first step into a new research field. It is to be recommended to anyone with the slightest interest in Soviet studies...” —"Journal of Slavic Military Studies" “Armed with much new archival data, Lennart Samuelson offers us what turns out to be a very intricate story.” —"American Historical Review" .,."a book of original and resourceful scholarship, where Samuelson has taken the first step into a new research field. It is to be recommended to anyone with the slightest interest in Soviet studies..." --"Journal of Slavic Military Studies" "Armed with much new archival data, Lennart Samuelson offers us what turns out to be a very intricate story." --"American Historical Review" " ...a book of original and resourceful scholarship, where Samuelson has taken the first step into a new research field. It is to be recommended to anyone with the slightest interest in Soviet studies..." -- "Journal of Slavic Military Studies" " Armed with much new archival data, Lennart Samuelson offers us what turns out to be a very intricate story." -- "American Historical Review" ..."a book of original and resourceful scholarship, where Samuelson has taken the first step into a new research field. It is to be recommended to anyone with the slightest interest in Soviet studies..." --"Journal of Slavic Military Studies" "Armed with much new archival data, Lennart Samuelson offers us what turns out to be a very intricate story." --"American Historical Review" About the Author LENNART SAMUELSON acquired his academic training at the University of Stockholm where he was Lecturer in Economic History. He received his Ph.D. in economic history at the Stockholm School of Economics. He is Assistant Professor to the Institute for Research in Economic History and holds a research post at the National Defence College, Stockholm.