Why Stalin's soldiers fought
Subtitle: the Red Army's military effectiveness in World War II
By: Roger R. Reese
Series: Modern war studies
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kansas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780700617760
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Military Sociology; World War, 1939-1945; Social conditions; Soldiers; Soviet Union; Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-380) and index.
Table of contents: title: Perspectives on military effectiveness; title: The winter war as predictor of military effectiveness in the Great Patriotic War; title: New perspectives on the great encirclements of 1941; title: The small-unit and individual experiences of encirclement; title: The Great Patriotic War: the mobilization of society for armed service; title: Mobilizing the nonvolunteers; title: The fear factor; title: Discipline, hate, ideology, and propaganda; title: Leadership, rewards, morale, and the primary group; title: Failures in effectiveness; title: Perpectives on women's motivation in the Great Patriotic War; title: The female experience of military service and war.