Ebook128 pages1 hour
A Worker’s Way Of War: The Red Army’s Doctrinal Debate, 1918–1924
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
Following the October 1917 Revolution, the leaders of the fledgling Red Army embarked on a debate concerning the nature, form, and function of military doctrine. A group known as the ‘military communists,’ including M.V. Frunze, M.N. Tukhachevsky, K. Voroshilov, and S.I. Gusev sought to formulate a ‘proletarian’ military doctrine based on the lessons of the Russian Civil War (1918-21) and purged of supposedly outmoded, bourgeois military thought. Their doctrine, they claimed, would be based overwhelmingly on maneuver and the offensive, which they felt best represented the ‘active’ nature of the working class. Against them stood Commissar for War Leon Trotsky, supported by ex-Tsarist military specialists, notably A.A. Svechin. Trotsky and his allies, noting the Soviet Union’s backwardness relative to the West, professed a policy of expediency in military affairs. Though Trotsky and Svechin proved their position correct both in reference to military affairs and orthodox communist thought, the ripening political struggle eventually secured Frunze’s and Tukhachevsky’s domination of the Red Army and Trotsky’s eventual ouster and exile.
Author
Major Matthew M. Hurley
See Book Description
Related to A Worker’s Way Of War
Related ebooks
Red Advance, White Defeat: Civil War in South Russia 1919–1920 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Soviet Union at War, 1941–1945 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Leon Trotsky Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Stalin School of Falsification Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom October to Brest-Litovsk Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrimordial Violence: German War On The Soviet Partisans Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRussia: The Story of War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Red Attack, White Resistance: Civil War in South Russia, 1918 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Role of the Soviet Union in the Second World War: A Re-examination Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917–Present Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In Defence of Marxism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings“First Red Clausewitz”: Friedrich Engels And Early Socialist Military Theory Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cold War and After: Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Russian Revolution: A Beginner's Guide Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Moscow Bombings of September 1999: Examinations of Russian Terrorist Attacks at the Onset of Vladimir Putin's Rule Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSoviet Staff Officer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fate of the New Man: Representing and Reconstructing Masculinity in Soviet Visual Culture, 1945–1965 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLenin's Legacy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Russo-Japanese War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe German Colonial Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Trotsky: Eternal Revolutionary Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Soviet Union Today: An Interpretive Guide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStress of War, Conflict and Disaster Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRussian Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKhrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stalin’s Claws: From the Purges to the Winter War: Red Army Operations Before Barbarossa 1937-1941 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Asian History For You
Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Caste (Oprah's Book Club): by Isabel Wilkerson - The Origins of Our Discontents - A Comprehensive Summary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Art of War: Illustrated Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Vory: Russia's Super Mafia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inglorious Empire: what the British did to India Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Genghis Khan: A Life From Beginning to End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for A Worker’s Way Of War
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Worker’s Way Of War - Major Matthew M. Hurley
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1