The Structure of Strategic Revolution: Total War and the Roots of the Soviet Warfare State

Schneider, James J. (James Joseph)

ISBN 10: 089141522X / ISBN 13: 9780891415220

Published by Presidio, Novato, CA, 1994

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24 cm, 334, minor scuffing to DJ. Schneider shows how the Soviet security apparatus evolved and how the warfare state was achieved by Stalin. He argues that the successes of Stalin's warfare state created the conditions that made Gorbachev's reformspossible.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Structure of Strategic Revolution: Total War and the Roots of the Soviet Warfare State
• Publisher: Presidio, Novato, CA
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089141522X
• ISBN 13: 9780891415220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First? Edition. First? Printing.
• Condition: very good, very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gorbachev
  • Russia

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Synopsis

The national defense and security apparatus, internal and external, developed by the Soviet Union was unique in the history of the world. Soviet leaders created a warfare state that, taken in its totality, left no part of life in the Soviet Union untouched. Social, economic, artistic, industrial, politicalall aspects of Soviet society were affected.
Professor Schneider shows how the Soviet security apparatus evolved and how the warfare state was achieved by Stalin. He offers important new insights into the strategic revolution of the nineteenth century that resulted from the Industrial Revolution, providing the technological means and industrial capacity for nations to wage total war.
Ironically, the Soviet warfare state contained the seeds of its own destruction. Professor Schneider shows how the success of Stalin's "revolution from above," which resulted in the warfare state, created the conditions that ultimately made the historical achievement of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms possible.

About the Author

Professor James J. Schneider holds the chair in military theory at the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.