Stalin''s Ocean-Going Fleet - Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programs, 1935-53

A study of the development of strategic concepts in Stalin's Navy, in the context of his foreign/defence policy, using original archival documents translated from the Russian.

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Ships Telegraph

"This is an essential work for the educated naval historian who knows his Soviet history."

Times Literary Supplement

"the authors of this fascinating book have ensured, however, that no portrait of Stalin lacking the element of his naval ambitions can be described as adequate

About the author

Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer

Summary

The book describes in detail the discussions about the naval strategy and the shipbuilding progams in the Soviet political and military leadership from 1922 to the death of Stalin in 1953.

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'This book is essential to understanding a phenomenon - Soviet naval expansion post-1945 - which increasingly distorted British naval policy prior to 1982 and from whose shadow we weren't wholly free even after the collapse of the USSR.'
Mark Brady, The Naval Review

Product details

• Authors: Mikhail Monakov, Mikhail Rohwer Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9780415761253
• ISBN: 978-0-415-76125-3
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History; Cass Series: Naval Policy and; Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration