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

ISBN-13: 9780714648958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 352 str.

Jurgen Rohwer;Monakov Mikhail; Mikhail Monakov

Opis

In this work, two senior naval historians analyze the discussions held in leading Soviet political, military, and naval circles concerning naval strategy and the decisions taken for warship-building programmes. They describe the reconstitution of the fleet under difficult conditions from the end of the Civil War up to the mid-1920s, leading to a change from classical naval strategy to a Jeune ecole model in the first two Five-Year Plans, including efforts to obtain foreign assistance in the design of warships and submarines. Their aim is to explain the reasons for the sudden change in 1935 to begin building a big ocean-going fleet. After a period of co-operation with Germany from 1939-41, the plans came to a halt when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in 1941. Finally, this work covers the reopening of the naval planning processes in 1944 and 1945 and the discussions of the naval leadership with Stalin, the party and government officials about the direction of the new building programmes as the Cold War began.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer