By David M. Glantz
One of the such a lot opaque elements of Soviet army functionality in the course of World
War II were the character, association, and services of the purple Army's command
and regulate and administrative constructions. whereas the Stavka, the USSR's People's
Commissariat of protection, and the purple military normal employees are established organs, the actual
organization and wartime capabilities of those entities and the numerous organs subordinate to
them should not. This hole within the historic list sharply inhibited one's skill to
understand how and why the crimson military emerged successful within the war.
Today, for the 1st on the grounds that war's finish, the govt of the Russian Federation has
opened its information to bare the various orders, directives, directions, and regulations
issued by way of these key Soviet wartime command and keep an eye on and administrative organs that
governed the behavior of struggle. those new files comprise kingdom safeguard Committee
decrees, People's Commissar ofDefense (Stalin) orders and directives, Stavka directives,
General employees directives and directions, and a number of files ready through other
central organs.
This slender quantity exploits that clean documentation to shape a mosaic illustrating
how these enterprises controlled the battle attempt and contributed to the Soviet
achievement of victory. the quantity enhances the sooner quantity on purple military force
structure and gear and paves the best way for a next quantity on crimson Army
personnel at each point of command. As such, the 3 volumes will conceal the sinews
and implements of conflict (structure), the managers of struggle (command and keep watch over and
administration), and at last, the human face of warfare (the soldier).
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64 The low quality of the Red Army officer corps on the eve of war was also a product of the prewar expansion of the Red Army and the subsequent massive manpower mobilization once war began. In 1935 the Red Army numbered 930,000 men. By the end of 1938, it had grown to 1,513,000 men and, by 1 January 1941, to 4,200,000 men, including the internal security forces. 65 Compounding the effects of the officer corps' expansion, in summer 1940 the Red Army's school system could accommodate only 4045 percent of the Army's educational requirements.
Like Novikov, however, he was rehabilitated after Stalin's death, only to be dismissed and retired in 1956 at age 51 after running afoul of Khrushchev. MEKHLIS Among those serving Stalin as members or representatives of the Stavka and in other Party or State control organs were men whose sheer cunning, ruthlessness, and outright cruelty suited them admirably for service to a tyrant in a thoroughly totalitarian state. The very existence of these men acted as the "glue" that held the regime together and preserved autocracy under trying wartime conditions.
M. Portugal' sic)', Komandnye kadry Sovetskykh vooruzhennykh sil v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny [The command cadre of the Soviet Armed Forces in the Great Patriotic War] (Moscow: VAF, 1991 ), 64 P. 8. Prepared for instruction at the Frunze Academy and numbered for official use. , Pp. 8-9. 30 - Soviet-Finnish War, the Spanish Civil Wear, or in combat against the Japanese at Khalkhin-Gol. 66 The Red Army accelerated its professional training in late 1940 and early 1941, doubling the number of military schools and increasing the number of graduates in existing schools and training courses.