Forging Stalin's Army
Subtitle: Marshal Tukhachevsky and the politics of military innovation
By: Sally W. Stoecker ; foreword by David Glantz.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Tukhachevskiĭ, M. N. 1893-1937; Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi͡a︡nskai͡a︡ Krasnai͡a︡ Armii͡a︡ -- History; Civil-military relations -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936
Description: This 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 1830s.

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 or Soviet political history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and index.