Russian Military History Books

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1. The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: A Documentary Reader

   By Alexander Hill

   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...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-60424-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule

   By Alex Marshall

   The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991, fuelled by the admixture of oil politics, great power rivalry, ethnic separatism and terrorism that characterizes the region. However,...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-41012-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian

   By Jamie Bisher

   This is the gripping story of a forgotten Russia in turmoil, when the line between government and organized crime blurred into a chaotic continuum of kleptocracy, vengeance and sadism. It tells the tale of how, in the last days of 1917, a fugitive Cossack captain brashly led seven...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-57134-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Military and the State in Central Asia: From Red Army to Independence

   By Erica Marat

   The military played a pivotal role in the political development, state functions, foreign policy and the daily lives of the people in the Central Asian states from the early twentieth century until the present. This book is the first major, in-depth study of the military institutions in Central...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-49347-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Railways and the Russo-Japanese War: Transporting War

   By Felix Patrikeeff, Harry Shukman

   This book explores the nexus between railways and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) - the first modern war, and one in which the railways played a key part. Felix Patrikeeff and Harry Shukman examine some of the key dimensions of the Russo-Japanese War, most notably how uncomfortably technological...

   July 2009 | 978-0-415-56218-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War

   Edited by Rotem Kowner

   The Russo-Japanese War was the major conflict of the earliest decade of the twentieth century. The struggle for mastery in northeast Asia, specifically for control of Korea, was watched at the time very closely by observers from many other countries keen to draw lessons about the conduct of war in...

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-54582-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Russian Military Reform: A Failed Exercise in Defence Decision Making

   By Carolina Vendil Pallin

   This book examines reform of the Russian military since the end of the Cold War. It explores the legacy of the Soviet era, explaining why - at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union - radical reform was long overdue in the wake of changing military technology, new economic and political realities...

   2008 | 978-0-415-44744-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan, 1904-05: Secret Operations on Land and at Sea

   By Evgeny Sergeev

   Examining Russian military intelligence in the war with Japan of 1904-05, this book, based on newly-accessible documents from the tsarist era military, naval and diplomatic archives, gives an overview of the origins, structure and performance of Russian military intelligence in the Far East at the...

   2007 | 978-0-415-41618-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Soviet Air Force Theory, 1918-1945

   By James Sterrett

   Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface Chapter 1: Early Concepts, 1900 - 1928 Chapter 2: Expansion, 1928 - 1937 Chapter 3: Small Wars, 1936 - 1940 Chapter 4: The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945 Conclusion Biographical Notes Bibliography ...

   2006 | 978-0-415-77019-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. From Leningrad to Hungary: Notes of a Red Army Soldier, 1941-1946

    By Evgenii D. Moniushko

    Edited by David M. Glantz

    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...

    2004 | 978-0-415-35067-9 | Paperback (Routledge)