Title Forging Stalin's army : Marshal Tukhachevsky and the politics of military innovation / Sally W. Stoecker ; foreword by David Glantz

Published New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Context for Innovation in Stalin's Army; Totalitarianism and the Red Army; Innovation in the Interwar Years; Was the Red Army a Traditional Bureaucracy?; The Lessons of the Great War; Civilian Participation or Intervention?; Motives and Opportunities for Innovation During the First Five Year Plan; Notes; 2 Politics and Military Priorities: Building a Case for More Resources; Security and the Goals of the First Five Year Plan; Voroshilov: Criticism of the Party Marshal Tukhachevsky: Optimism for IndustrializationA Controversial Rearmament Proposal; The Red Army's Manipulation of the ""War Scare; Conclusions; Notes; 3 The Impact of the Far East Threats and Encounters on Innovation; The Chinese Eastern Railway Conflict as Propaganda Tool; Party Documents Reflect New Concerns for Far East; Military Encounters in the Far East; Notes; 4 The Clandestine Collaboration Between the Reichswehr and the Red Army; The Background and Context of the Secret Collaboration; Air Force Doctrine and Theory; Tank Doctrine and Theory; Chemical Doctrine and Theory Lipetsk, Tomka, and Kama: Weapons Development, Testing, and Tactical TrainingImpediments to Interpreting Influence: A Closer Look; Conclusions; Notes; 5 The Acquisition and Adaptation of Foreign Models The Case of Tank Development; The Birth of Research and Development Bureaus; Ostekhbiuro: Where Civil and Military Goals Overlapped; The Acquisition and Alteration of British and American Tanks; Excursus: Soviet Design Analyses of German Tank Models; Indigenous Tank Programs and Prototypes: Dyrenkov and Grotto; Conclusions; Notes; 6 Marshal Tukhachevsky: Enigmatic Military Entrepreneur Tukhachevsky as Public EntrepreneurSkillfully Exploiting Contradictions; Stalinist Ideology and the RKKA; Formulating a Vision of Future War; The Nature of a Coalition War; Imperialist Intentions and Variants of Future War; Leningrad as Laboratory: The ""Deep Battle"" Emerges; The Entrepreneur Ascendant: Tukhachevsky as Chief of Armaments; An Entrepreneurial Excursus: Tukhachevsky Gives Substance to Stalin's Vision of Civil Aviation, or ""15,000 Tons by 1932?; Personalities, Politics, and the Public Entrepreneur; Conclusions; Notes; 7 Postscript: Yezhovshchina and the End of Innovation Tukhachevsky's DemiseWho Framed Marshal Tukhachevsky?; Notes; 8 Concluding Remarks; Acronyms; Selected Bibliography; Index Summary 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. 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 Notes Originally published 1998 by Westview Press Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version of record Subject Tukhachevskiĭ, M. N. (Mikhail Nikolaevich), 1893-1937 SUBJECT Tukhachevskiĭ, M. N. (Mikhail Nikolaevich), 1893-1937 fast Subject Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ -- History SUBJECT Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ fast Subject Civil-military relations -- Soviet Union -- History HISTORY -- Military -- Other. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. Civil-military relations Politics and government SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125845 Subject Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780429980022 0429980027 9780429968945 0429968949 9780429991103 042999110X

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