The Soviet High Command: a Military-political History, 1918-1941

by John Erickson

An objective and documentary history of the earliest origins and formative years of the Workers-Peasants Red Army from the Civil War to the initial disasters of the war with Germany, the Great Patriotic War, culminating in the "battle for Moscow" in November-December 1941.

Genres: History, World War II

928 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

John Erickson was a British historian of World War II.

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Reviews

[Jonathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A classic but still unsurpassed as a portrait of the upper echelon of the Red Army during its formative years (try to find the paperback edition).