The Soviet High Command
Subtitle: a military-political history, 1918-1941
By: John Erickson.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Cass series on Soviet (Russian) military institutions -- 3
Publisher: Frank Cass
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 889
Subjects: Soviet Union. -- Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ -- History.; Soviet Union -- Military policy.; Soviet Union -- History, Military.
Description: "A documentary history of the earliest origins and formative years of the Workers-Peasants Red Army from the Civil War to the initial disasters of the war with Germany, the Great Patriotic War, culminating in the "battle for Moscow" in November-December 1941.".

"The study makes extensive use of Soviet military histories, specialist military monograhs, Red Army regulations, military manuals and handbooks, memoirs, documentary collections on Soviet military organization and Army-Party relations. Unpublished captured German military documents describe the secret Red Army-Reichswehr collaboration. Japanese Army records provide detailed information on the Soviet military build-up in the Far East.".

"The "Tukhachevskii Affair" is investigated together with Stalin's murderous military purge and its consequences for the Red Army. Poor Soviet performance in the "Winter War" with Finland prompted hasty reforms, but neither reorganization nor rearmament was complete before the German invasion in June 1941. First suffering catastrophic loss inflicted by the Wehrmacht, the Red Army had recovered sufficiently by December 1941 to defend Moscow and to counter-attack."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 809-834) and index.