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Author

Reese, Roger R.

Title Why Stalin's soldiers fought : the Red Army's military effectiveness in World War II / Roger R. Reese.

Imprint

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, c2011.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	940.541247 R259w 2011	---	Available
Axe Special Collections Whitehead	940.541247 R259w 2011 c.2	---	Lib Use Only
FSCC Non-Fiction	940.541247 R259w, 2011	---	Available

Description	xix, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series	Modern war studies
	Modern war studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-380) and index.
Contents	Perspectives on military effectiveness -- The winter war as predictor of military effectiveness in the Great Patriotic War -- New perspectives on the great encirclements of 1941 -- The small-unit and individual experiences of encirclement -- The Great Patriotic War: the mobilization of society for armed service -- Mobilizing the nonvolunteers -- The fear factor -- Discipline, hate, ideology, and propaganda -- Leadership, rewards, morale, and the primary group -- Failures in effectiveness -- Perspectives on women's motivation in the Great Patriotic War -- The female experience of military service and war.
Subject	Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestianskaia Krasnaia Armiia -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union.
	Sociology, Military -- Soviet Union -- History.
	Soldiers -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
ISBN	9780700617760 (cloth : alkaline paper)
	0700617760 (cloth : alkaline paper)