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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Soviet aviation and air power.
1. Aeronautics, MilitaryRussiaHistoryAddresses, essays, lectures.
2. AeronauticsRussiaHistoryAddresses, essays, lectures. 3. Air power
Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Higham, Robin [D. S.] II. Kipp, Jacob W.
UG635.R9S596 358.400947 76-30815
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-28815-0 (hbk)
Kendall E. Bailes received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, where he also studied at the Russian Institute. He currently teaches at the University of California, Irvine. The author of articles in American Historical Review, Technology and Culture, Soviet Studies , and Cahiers du Monde Russe et Sovietique , he is also the author of a forthcoming monograph to be published by Princeton University Press, Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin: The Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 19171941.
Otto Preston Chaney, Jr., a colonel in the U.S. Army, holds a Ph.D. in Russian area studies. He is the author of the full-length biography Zhukov , published in the United States, Great Britain, and Spain. Recendy he was a consultant to the BBC-TV production The Commanders: Zhukov. He twice served as liaison officer to the Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in East Germany. He now resides in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he is the U.S. Army attache.
John T. Greenwood received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in military history after studying Russian and Soviet history at the Universities of Colorado and Wisconsin. After serving as a historian for the Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force Base and for the Space and Missile Systems Organization in Los Angeles, he joined the Office of Air Force History in Washington, where he is currently employed in the study of USAF strategic offensive forces. His work has been published in Aerospace Historian, Military Affairs , and Military Review , and he is the compiler of the bibliography American Defense Policy since 1945.
Neil M. Hey man received his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale in 1959 and his graduate training at Stanford (M.A., 1965; Ph.D., 1972). He attended the Army Language School and served as a Russian linguist from 1960 through 1963. He has contributed articles to Journal of Modern History, Military Affairs , and Army Quarterly and Defense Journal. Now associate professor of history at San Diego State University, he is writing a book on the military career of Leon Trotsky.
Robin Higham, professor of history at Kansas State University and editor of the publications Military Affairs and Aerospace Historian , is the author of Air Power: A Concise History , a selection of both the History Book Club and the Flying Book Club.
David R. Jones lives in Cambridge Station, Nova Scotia. He is currently preparing the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian Military and Naval Affairs and the newly established Soviet Armed Forces Review. He has been published widely on Russian military affairs in such journals as Slavic Studies, Soviet Studies, Naval War College Review, Aerospace Historian , and Military Affairs.
Jacob W. Kipp, associate professor of history at Kansas State University, received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1970. Professor Kipp has been a Fulbright-Hays fellow in Poland, an IREX fellow in the USSR, and a Kosciuszko fellow in Poland. He has published articles on Russian and Soviet naval and administrative history in Jahrbcher fr Geschichte Osteuropas, Journal of Modern History, Military Affairs , and U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings.
Joseph P. Mastro holds a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He is currently an associate professor of political science at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Specializing in Soviet domestic politics and foreign policy and other Communist systems, he is the author of several papers on the Soviet political elite.
Alfred L. Monks is an associate professor at the University of Wyoming and the author of several articles on Soviet military affairs. He is now writing a book on Soviet military thought and the late Soviet defense minister, Marshal A. A. Grechko.
Phillip A. Petersen is an instructor in university-wide projects at the University of Illinois. He served as foreign armies instructor in the command and staff department of the Army Security Agency Training Center and School, and has published articles about Soviet perceptions of military sufficiency, and about the Sino-Soviet conflict from a military perspective.
Kenneth R. Whiting, chief of the documentary research branch, Academic Publications Division, at the Air University, is a noted expert on Soviet affairs. He received a Ph.D. in Russian history from Harvard in 1951 and has contributed numerous articles and studies on Soviet affairs to a wide variety of publications, including Eugene Emmes The Impact of Air Power and Asher Lees Soviet Air and Rocket Forces. He is currently writing a book about the military forces of the Communist powers.
