This handbook brings together historical and contemporary essays about Soviet and Russian military studies, to offer a comprehensive volume on the topic.
Comprising essays written by acknowledged specialists, the handbook examines the development of the Russian and Soviet armed forces from the Napoleonic Wars all the way through to the course and conduct of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Divided into thematic and chronological sections, the volume looks at wars fought by the Tsarist regime through to the First World War; the Soviet Unions Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945; the Cold War (including the Soviet war in Afghanistan); and Russias post-Soviet wars and military development. In addition, the volume also includes a section that analyses a number of overarching themes, including the development of Russian and Soviet airpower, partisan warfare, counterinsurgency and the role of women in Russian and Soviet armed forces. The volume concludes with an essay looking at whether, using the historical material and material on the conduct of the war in Ukraine, we can reasonably talk of a Russian way of war.
This volume will be of considerable interest to students of the Soviet Union and Russia, strategic studies and military history.
This handbook brings together historical and contemporary essays about Soviet and Russian military studies, to offer a comprehensive volume on the topic.
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'Combining empirical and analytical material on key moments in Soviet and Russian military history, this is a thought-provoking compendium of works by leading experts in their respective fields. Analysis of Russias strategic and military culture provides invaluable insights into the dynamics of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, UK
Alexander Hill has gathered a galaxy of stellar researchers whose expertise combines to produce the definitive sourcebook on Russias military history, doctrines and practices. Their cutting-edge contributions are as innovative as they are deep and make this book the essential starting-point for students and scholars of Russian and Soviet military studies.
Geoffrey Roberts, University College Cork, Ireland
Introduction Part I: Chronological topics
1. The Russian Army and the
Napoleonic Wars
2. Russian Colonial Warfare in the Caucasus and Central Asia
3. War in the Borderlands: The Crimean War and Russo-Turkish Wars of 1828-29
and 1877-78
4. From Port Arthur into the Abyss: The Russo-Japanese War and
its Aftermath
5. The Russian Army and the First World War: The View from
Outside
6. The Russian Civil War
7. The Inter-war Development of Soviet
Military Theory
8. From Tsushima to Berlin and the Kurile Islands: Russian
and Soviet Naval Power, 1905-45
9. The Soviet Union, Foreign Military
Assistance and the Small Wars of the Inter-War Period
10. Soviet Strategy
during the Second World War
11. Stalins War: Soviet Command and Control
during the Great Patriotic War
12. The Soviet Armed Forces in the Mirror of
the Enemy, 1933-41
13. The Soviet Home Front and the Great Patriotic War,
1941-45
14. The Impact and Aftermath of the Second World War in the Soviet
Union
15. The Significance of the Great Patriotic War's Collective Memory in
the USSR and Russia
16. The Development of the Soviet Armed Forces and
Military Doctrine after 1945
17. From the Tsar-Bomba to START-I: The
Evolution of the Soviet Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, 1945-91
18. Soviet
Military Assistance and Advising, 1953-91
19. The Soviet War in Afghanistan
20. Russian Military Reform and Development, 1992-2021
21. U.S.-Russian
Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control and Strategic Missile Defence: Past, Present
and Future
22. The Chechen Wars
23. Russia and the War in Donbass, 2014-15
Part II: Overarching Themes
24. Hybrid, Non-Linear and New-Type Warfare
in Soviet and Russian Theory and Practice
25. Russian and Soviet Logistics
from 1700 to the Present Day
26. Russian and Soviet Partisan Warfare
27.
Russian and Soviet Military Aviation
28. The Soviet and Russian Navies: From
the Cold War to the Cold War 2.0, 1945-2024
29. Women in the Russian and
Soviet Armed Forces
30. Soviet Counter-insurgency: From the Civil War to
Afghanistan
31. Predictions of Future Conflict in Soviet and Russian Military
Exercises, 1929-2021 Part III: The War in Ukraine
32. Russias Special
Military Operation in Ukraine: Military Successes and Failures during 2022
33. The War in Ukraine, January 2023 to July 2024
34. Strategic Leadership of
the Russian Armed Forces in Russo-Ukrainian War: Valerii Gerasimov and the
Contemporary Importance of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45
35. The Ukraine
War and the Power/Order Debate in Russia: Let the Storm Rage On!
36.
Understanding Russias Special Military Operation in the Context of Its
Wider Military History: Some Thoughts on a Russian Way of War
Alexander Hill is a Professor in Military History at the University of Calgary, Canada, and a fellow of its Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Red Army and the Second World War (2017).
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