David Glantz's books

[Tal Inbar]

Armed revolution and civil war gave birth to the Soviet Union, world War II propelled it to global pre-eminence, and the Cld War contributed to the Soviet Union's demise. Given Marxism-Leninism's idological preoccupation with war and threats of war, it is understandable that the spectre of war should play a vital role in the life and fate of the Soviet state.

This study of Soviet military strategy is based upon the twin pillars of Soviet political-military actions and Soviet writings on the subject of military strategy. Thanks to the policy of glasnost, it incorporates Soviet materials hitherto unavailable in the West. It aims to be not simply a retrospective account of what was, but to form part of the context for what will be in the future.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
The Civil War and military intervention (1917-1921)
- the emergence of Soviet military strategy (1921-1935)
- Soviet military strategy in the 1930s (1930-1941)
- Soviet military strategy in World War II (1941-1945)
- Post-World War II Soviet military strategy
- future Soviet military strategy and its implications. Appendices
- Soviet mobilization in World War II
- Soviet strategic operations in World War II
- recent Soviet views on military reform.