Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917-1930

By Mark Von Hagen

Book Overview

Historians have long debated the factors most responsible for the fundamental transformation of Soviet social and political structures which occurred between the October Revolution and the emergence of the Stalinist police state. With this social and institutional history of the Red Army, Mark von Hagen provides a valuable new perspective on this critical first decade in the history of the Soviet Union.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481279
• ISBN13: 9780801481277
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.