Soviet Military Experience

<p><em>The Soviet Military Experience</em> is the first general work to place the Soviet army into its true social political and international contexts.<br>It focuses on the Bolshevik Party's intention to create an army of a new type whose aim was both to defend the people and propagate Marxist ideals to the rest of the world. It includes discussion of the:<br>* origins of the Workers and Peasant's Red Army<br>* effects of the Civil War<br>* Bolshevik regime's use of the military as a school of socialism<br>* effects of collectivization and rapid industrialisation of the 1920s and 1930s<br>* Second World War and its profound repercussions<br>* ethnic tensions within the army<br>* effect of Gorbachev's policies of <em>Glasnost</em> and <em>Perestroika</em></p>