The value of human life in Soviet warfare /
Argues that Soviet leaders are less ready to tolerate massive casualties in battle than has been supposed, looking at changes in attitudes and practice
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1992
London ; New York : 1992 |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-and index.) | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Book Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Soviet Military Medical Service; Chapter 2 The performance of the Service during the Great Patriotic War; Chapter 3 The Soviet attitude to POWs; Chapter 4 Fighting at all costs; Chapter 5 Conclusion: the value of human life in Soviet warfare; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The value of human life in Soviet warfare; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Soviet Military Medical Service; Introduction; The history of the Service; The Military Medical Service after the Revolution; The first tests of fire; The Molotav-Ribbentrop Pact-an interregnum; The composition of the Military Medical Service; Chapter 2 The performance of the Service during the Great Patriotic War; Introduction; Medical theory under fire; Reorganization and coordination; The Air Force; The Navy; Medicine and voluntarism on the home front-the 'rear' | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Compassion and the utilitarian approach Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The roots of the Cold War The Vlasov case; POW's on the international agenda after the war; POWs in Afghanistan; Chapter 4 Fighting at all costs; Introduction; Military experience after the Revolution: discipline and morale through education; Morale and discipline in the Great Patriotic War; An assessment of the Soviet attitude to the cost of fighting; A new strategy for the 1990's and beyond; Chapter 5Conclusion: the value of human life in Soviet warfare; The fire power/manoeuvre component of the equation; A behavioural observation: the rationale of fighting armies | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Women's health Disease and epidemics; The policy of medical staff replenishment; Assessment of Soviet casualties in the Great Patriotic War; An assessment of Soviet medical treatment; The contemporary Military Medical Service; Chapter 3 The Soviet attitude to POW's; Introduction; The changing attitude to the status of POW's; The legal legacy of the Soviet Armed Forces; The Soviet Government's wartime attitude to its POW's; Order No. 270; Analysis of the effects of Order No. 270; The attitude on the battlefield; The diplomatic struggle during the war; The situation towards the end of the war | |
| 520 | |a Argues that Soviet leaders are less ready to tolerate massive casualties in battle than has been supposed, looking at changes in attitudes and practice | ||
| 520 | |a This is a key question for all Western military strategists. If the Soviets are indeed willing to tolerate high human sacrifice in warfare this obviously puts them at a military advantage. The perceived wisdom, hitherto, is that the Soviets are indeed willing to tolerate high casualties in battle - this, initial, view is reinforced by myths about Stalin clearing minefields by marching penal battalions across them. Professor Sella, however, comes to a different conclusion. He surveys Soviet attitudes to the military-medical service; to its own prisoners of war; and to the ethos | ||
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