Soviet (Russian) Study of War
About the Book Series
This series examines the lessons Soviet (Russian) military theorists and commanders learned from the study of their own military operations. Separate volumes contain annotated translations of Soviet works analysing their own experiences, as well as the works of important Soviet military theorists and collections of Soviet articles concerning specific campaigns, operations and military techniques.
Red Armor Combat Orders: Combat Regulations for Tank and Mechanised Forces 1944
1st Edition
By Richard N. Armstrong
July 27, 2016
Soviet military leadership is unable or unwilling to disassociate itself from past experiences. Red Armour Combat Orders illustrates through captured regulations that many of the Soviet Techniques in armoured warfare have remained unchanged over the last four decades. Study of the regulations ...
Soviet Documents on the Use of War Experience: Volume Three: Military Operations 1941 and 1942
1st Edition
Edited
By Harold S. Orenstein
April 27, 2016
The Soviet Study of War" series examines the lessons Soviet military theorists and commanders learned from the study of their own military experience. These are translations of Soviet documents....
Stalin and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-1940
1st Edition
Edited
By E.N. Kulkov, Oleg Aleksandrovich Rzheshevskii, Harold Shukman
September 11, 2014
This is the verbatim record of a secret and hitherto unpublished meeting, held in the Kremlin in April 1940, devoted to a post mortem of the Finnish campaign....
Soviet Air Force Theory, 1918-1945
1st Edition
By James Sterrett
May 10, 2013
This new book examines the development of Soviet thinking on the operational employment of their Air Force from 1918 to 1945, using Soviet theoretical writings and contemporary analyses of combat actions....
The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: A Documentary Reader
1st Edition
By Alexander Hill
December 06, 2010
This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the ‘Great Patriotic War’ of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45. Despite the historical significance of the war, few Soviet documents have been published in English. This work provides ...
From Leningrad to Hungary: Notes of a Red Army Soldier, 1941-1946
1st Edition
Edited
By David M. Glantz, Evgenii D. Moniushko
January 21, 2005
This new book is a chronological narrative of the experiences of Evgenii Moniushko, who lived through and survived the first year of the siege of Leningrad and who served as a junior officer in the Red Army during the last eighteen months of war and the first year of the Soviet occupation of ...
The War Behind the Eastern Front: Soviet Partisans in North West Russia 1941-1944
1st Edition
By Alexander Hill
January 20, 2005
This book is based on Soviet archival sources, most previously untapped by Western and Soviet and post-Soviet Russian historians, in addition to German material from the US National Archives. Using this material the author describes the harsh realities of partisan warfare and explains the changing ...
Belorussia 1944: The Soviet General Staff Study
1st Edition
Edited
By David Glantz
August 31, 2004
A new edited translation of the Soviet Staff study of the Red Army's Belorussian operation in the summer of 1944, which was unprecedented in terms of its scale, scope and strategic consequences. The Soviet Stavka had planned a campaign consisting of a series of massive operations spanning the...
Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945: 'August Storm'
1st Edition
By David M. Glantz
February 27, 2003
At the request of the other Allies, on 9th August 1945, a force of over 1.5 million Red Army soldiers unleashed a massive attack against the Japanese in Manchuria. Volume 2 covers the detailed course of operational and tactical fighting in virtually every combat sector....
The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945: 'August Storm'
1st Edition
By David M. Glantz
February 27, 2003
This critical examination of the final Soviet strategic offensive operation during World War II seeks to chip away at two generally inaccurate pictures many Westerners have of the war. Specifically, Westerners seem to think that only geography, climate, and sheer numbers negated German military ...
Kursk 1943: A Statistical Analysis
1st Edition
By Anders Frankson, Niklas Zetterling
September 07, 2000
The battle at Kursk in 1943 is often referred to as the greatest tank battle in the history of warfare. This volume makes extensive use of German archival documents as well as various Russian books and articles. As well as an account of the battle, it addresses methodological issues....
The Battle for Kursk, 1943: The Soviet General Staff Study
1st Edition
Edited
By David M. Glantz, Harold S. Orenstein
September 29, 1999
This volume offers detailed information about the Red Army's preparation for and conduct of the Battle of Kursk, the nature of the war on the German Eastern Front, and on the range of horrors that have characterized warfare in the 20th century....