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Overview
In the interwar period, Red Army commanders headed by Tukhachevskii developed a new raw doctrine of mobile warfare and "deep operations." The military requirements of armaments and industrial production in the event of war was a central parameter in Stalinist industrialization. Based on recently opened Russian archives, this book analyzes military dimensions of Soviet long-term economic and military reconstruction plans from the mid-1920s until 1941. It presents a new framework for estimating the Soviet war-economic preparedness, drastically underestimated by contemporaries.
Synopsis
Analyzes military dimensions of Soviet long-term economic and military reconstruction plans from the mid-1920s until 1941
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Samuelson (Institute for Research in Economic History, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden) examines the involvement of Red Army officials in the Gosplan, the central planning organ of Stalinist industrialization, drawing on recently opened archives in Russia. He links the military's vision of future war, formulated by the leading military theoritician Mikhail Tukhachevskii in the theory of "deep operations," with investment patterns of the five-year plans. Plans and requirements as specified for branches and individual enterprises show a new dimension of the pre-war Soviet economy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)