Pub Date : 2006-12-01DOI: 10.1080/13518040601028594
Michael Alfred Peszke
This is a fascinating account of the Polish Air Force officer corps of the Second Polish Republic, being to a large extent an anthology of the memoirs and reminiscences from the period of 1919–1945...
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Pub Date : 2006-07-01DOI: 10.1080/13518040600697977
Aleksei Gavrilovich Maslov
This selection, the third part of a five-part memoir of his experiences as a Red Army soldier during World War II, contains Aleksei Maslov's recollections of his life in German prisoner-of-war camps. After falling captive in July 1942 during the Wehrmacht's advance to Stalingrad, Maslov suffered through two years of imprisonment in POW camps in German-occupied territories and Germany itself before being assigned work as a slave laborer in the German war economy. His candid description of daily life in POW camps vividly portrays in microcosm the privations and frequent horrors endured by millions of his fellow Russian POW's as they struggled to survive their own personal holocaust during this most terrible of wars. 1 1 Ia vernulsia iz plena.
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Pub Date : 2005-12-01DOI: 10.1080/13518040590914118
Robert Bruce Ware
Two hundred and eighty-three people died in their sleep in September 1999 as the result of a series of four apartment block explosions throughout Russia. When Vladimir Putin found a “Chechen trace,” the explosions were used as justification for the Russian invasion of Chechnya. Since then critics have pointed to evidence that the blasts were the work of the Federal Security Service (FSB). Yet pending further evidence, the simplest, clearest explanation for the apartment block blasts is that they were perpetrated by Islamist extremists from the North Caucasus who were seeking retribution for federal military attacks upon the Islamist enclave in the central Dagestani villages of Karamakhi, Chabanmakhi, and Kadar.
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Pub Date : 2001-12-01DOI: 10.1080/13518040108430496
M. de Haas
Military doctrine forms an essential part of the security policy of a country. In this article I will analyse six military doctrines, which have been published in the USSR, the CIS and the Russian Federation between 1990 and 2000. I will provide a comparison of these doctrines on themes as the perception of the military‐political situation, threats, command & control over the forces, objectives and tasks of military employment and international military cooperation. The future Russian military doctrine will probably put more emphasis on joint military action by the Armed Forces and the other troops as well as on training and equipping of the forces aimed at irregular warfare.
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Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/13518049908430415
Viktor M. Gobarev
The year 1999 has seen increasingly heated debates regarding the issue of alleged Chinese nuclear espionage in the United States. These debates focus on the issue of whether the Chinese simply outsmarted the US government, or whether the Clinton administration or its representatives deliberately leaked classified information on nuclear weapons and missile technology to the Chinese government or its agents. As context, it may be both timely and useful to examine what history has to tell us about such cases in the past. If this is so, then no case has been more extensive, appropriate, and illustrative of this process than the one involving Chinese‐Soviet nuclear cooperation, which extended from the end of the 1940s to the early 1960s. If this case is apropos, then the central questions are, ‘What nuclear secrets, if any, did the Chinese steal from the Soviets?’ and ‘What secrets, if any, did the Soviet Union itself transfer to China?’ These and other relevant issues are the central focus of this article.
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Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/13518049908430419
I. Kuznetsov
Military advisors from Russia played an important role in the creation and development of the Mongolian Army. The first military advisers in Mongolia were Lyatte, Litvinstev, Kosich, Sorkin, Sheko, Pokus, Kangelari who were the commanders of 5th Army, which fought its way from the Volga up to Lake Baikal in the Russian Civil War. They helped in the creation of the Mongolian Army, which had defeated the army of Baron Ungern. Military advisors and instructors in Mongolia became especially active after 1925, when Red Army units were removed from Mongolia. At this time here especially appreciable were L. Vainer, K. Rokossovsky, V. Sudets, V. Gordov, K. Zimin. They helped to transform the Mongolian Army into a modern mechanized force. According to the Protocol on Mutual Aid between USSR and Mongolia in March 1936 the Red Army again entered Mongolia, the new groups of advisers and instructors included: I. Pliev, M. Tikhonov, V. Panyuchov, I. Nikitin etc. Due to their activity the power of the Mongolian Army inc...
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Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/13518049908430420
P. Aptekar
No page of Soviet military history has been more obscure than the real nature and course of the Soviet‐Finnish War of 1939–1940. For years the West had to rely on German‐based accounts of this conflict whose course and outcome proved so embarrassing to the Soviet state. Only recently have Russian archival releases provided the raw materials with which to reconstruct the true nature of this conflict. In this article Pavel Aptekar draws upon his keen research skills to reconstruct the role of the Soviet Air Force in this once obscure conflict.
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Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/13518049908430421
D. Glantz
For over 50 years, major gaps have existed in the historical record of operations on the German‐Soviet front during World War II. This has been so largely because archival evidence has been lacking on the Soviet side regarding the Soviet High Command's (Stavka) strategic intent and the Red Army's performance in operations that generally failed. It is indeed sad but true that failed operations often vanish from history without a trace. Unless archival data exists about them, historians can scarcely detect or reconstruct their futile course. This is especially the case in the summer‐fall campaign of 1941, when the brilliance of German Operation ‘Barbarossa’ eclipsed the frequent but feeble Soviet attempts to thwart the German juggernaut. Today, however, it is finally possible to reconstruct the bitter experiences the Red Army suffered while it attempted to counter Operation ‘Barbarossa’. We can do so, first, and with limited certitude, by more thorough analysis of German archival materials and the existing ...
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Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/13518049908430416
John P. Moran
Past attempts to understand the phenomena of corruption, insubordination, and factionalism within the post‐Communist Russian military have tended to focus on the question of military professionalism. Unfortunately, in spite of a great deal of superb research, no conclusive evidence has yet to emerge that can truly explain the evolution of these unexpected phenomena. This article suggests that at least some insight may be gained through an examination of Russian military culture as interpreted by the great pre‐Communist writer Leo Tolstoy. With this in mind, Tolstoy's War and Peace (1865–69), the greatest of all literary works with regard to Russian military affairs, is examined in an effort to explain Russian military behaviour. This article suggests that it is not unreasonable to conclude that the perceived military culture of Russia's past may very well affect the way in which military politics are to be conducted today. The Russian military may very well be looking ‘back to the future’ for guidance as ...
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