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Plans for Stalin's War-Machine

Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925-1941

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  • © 2000

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  1. Lennart Samuelson

    1. Institute for Research in Economic History (EHF), Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 1-9

  3. Visions of Future War

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 10-28

  4. Organising for Modern Total War, 1921–8

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 29-63

  5. Launching the First Five-Year Plan

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 64-89

  6. Radical Reconsiderations, 1930–1

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 90-120

  7. Changing Military Requirements, 1931–2

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 121-147

  8. New Threat Assessments and War Plans, 1933–6

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 148-161

  9. Plans for Red Army Expansion, 1933–7

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 162-183

  10. Economic Planning in Terror and War, 1937–41

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 184-199

  11. Conclusion

    • Lennart Samuelson
    Pages 200-205

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 206-267
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About this book

In the interwar period, Red Army commanders headed by Tukhachevskii developed a new 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, the 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 preparations, drastically underestimated by contemporaries.

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  • Institute for Research in Economic History (EHF), Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

    Lennart Samuelson

About the author

LENNART SAMUELSON acquired his academic training at the University of Stockholm where he was Lecturer in Economic History. He received his Ph.D. in economic history at the Stockholm School of Economics. He is Assistant Professor to the Institute for Research in Economic History and holds a research post at the National Defence College, Stockholm.

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