THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SOVIET NAVY IN THE BALTIC, 19211941
This book, based on extensive work in Russian archives, investigates how strategy, organizational rivalry and cultural factors came to shape naval developments in the Soviet Union, up to the invasion of 1941.
Focusing on the Baltic Fleet, the author shows how the perceived balance of power in northern Europe came to have a major influence on Soviet naval policy during the 1920s and 1930s. The operational environment of a narrow inland-sea like the Baltic would have required a joint approach to military planning, but the Soviet navys weak position among the armed services made such an approach hard to attain. The Soviet regime also struggled against the cultural heritage of the tsarist navy and the book describes how this struggle was overcome. In a special Appendix dedicated to the purges of 193738, surviving party records from the Baltic Fleet intelligence section are used to illustrate the mechanisms of the Great Terror at a local level.
Gunnar selius PhD, Associate Professor, is a Historian at the Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm.
CASS SERIES: NAVAL POLICY AND HISTORY Series Editor: Geoffrey Till ISSN 13669478
This series consists primarily of original manuscripts by research scholars in the general area of naval policy and history, without national or chronological limitations. It will from time to time also include collections of important articles as well as reprints of classic works.
1. AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN NAVAL POLICY, 19041914
Milan N. Vego
2. FAR-FLUNG LINES
Studies in imperial defence in honour of Donald
Mackenzie Schurman
Edited by Keith Neilson and Greg Kennedy
3. MARITIME STRATEGY AND CONTINENTAL WARS
Rear Admiral Raja Menon
4. THE ROYAL NAVY AND GERMAN NAVAL
DISARMAMENT, 19421947
Chris Madsen
5. NAVAL STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS IN
NARROW SEAS
Milan N. Vego
6. THE PEN AND INK SAILOR
Charles Middleton
and the Kings Navy, 17781813
John E. Talbott
7. THE ITALIAN NAVY AND FASCIST
EXPANSIONISM, 19351940
Robert Mallett
8. THE MERCHANT MARINE AND INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS, 18501950
Edited by Greg Kennedy
9. NAVAL STRATEGY IN NORTHEAST ASIA
Geo-strategic goals, policies and prospects
Duk-Ki Kim
10. NAVAL POLICY AND STRATEGY IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Past, present and future
Edited by John B. Hattendorf
11. STALINS OCEAN-GOING FLEET
Soviet naval strategy and
shipbuilding programmes, 19351953
Jrgen Rohwer and Mikhail S. Monakov
12. IMPERIAL DEFENCE, 18681887
Donald Mackenzie Schurman; edited by John Beeler
13. TECHNOLOGY AND NAVAL COMBAT IN
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND
Edited by Phillips Payson OBrien
14. THE ROYAL NAVY AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Richard Moore
15. THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE CAPITAL SHIP IN
THE INTERWAR PERIOD
An operational perspective
Joseph Moretz
16. CHINESE GRAND STRATEGY AND MARITIME
POWER
Thomas M. Kane
17. BRITAINS ANTI-SUBMARINE CAPABILITY, 19191939
George Franklin
18. BRITAIN, FRANCE AND THE NAVAL ARMS TRADE IN
THE BALTIC, 19191939
Grand strategy and failure
Donald Stoker
19. NAVAL MUTINIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
An international perspective
Edited by Christopher Bell and Bruce Elleman
20. THE ROAD TO ORAN
Anglo-French naval relations,
September 1939July 1940
David Brown
21. THE SECRET WAR AGAINST SWEDEN
US and British submarine deception and
political control in the 1980s
Ola Tunander
22. ROYAL NAVY STRATEGY IN THE FAR EAST, 19191939
Planning for a war against Japan
Andrew Field
23. SEAPOWER
A guide for the twenty-first century
Geoffrey Till
24. BRITAINS ECONOMIC BLOCKADE OF
GERMANY, 19141919
Eric W. Osborne
25. A LIFE OF ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET ANDREW
CUNNINGHAM
A twentieth-century naval leader
Michael Simpson
26. NAVIES IN NORTHERN WATERS, 17212000
Edited by Rolf Hobson and Tom Kristiansen
27. GERMAN NAVAL STRATEGY, 18561888
Forerunners to tirpitz
David Olivier
28. BRITISH NAVAL STRATEGY EAST OF SUEZ, 19002000
Influences and actions
Edited by Greg Kennedy
29. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SOVIET NAVY IN
THE BALTIC, 19211941
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