Title: Forging Stalin's Army
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Civil-military relations, History, Politics and government, Soviet Union, Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡, Stalin, joseph, 1879-1953, Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire, Histoire, Politique et gouvernement, Military, Other, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Military Science
Places: Soviet Union
People: M. N. Tukhachevskiĭ (1893-1937)
Time periods: 1917-1936
LC classification: UA772 .S824 1998