The Soviet Army--The Army of the People
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Pamphlet. Format is 4.5 inches by 7.5 inches. 45, [3] pages, plus covers. Footnotes. Chapters include To the Reader; The Revolution must Defend Itself; The Whole People's Concern; Unparalleled Feat; Sources of Strength; and Bulwark of Peace and Construction. Also includes 15 black and white photographs, as well as 14 color photographs. Alexey Ivanovich Sorokin (28 March 1922 – 4 March 2020) was a Soviet Admiral of the Fleet and member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union. Sorokin joined the Red Army in 1941. He was promoted to lieutenant, commanding a mortar battery and fought during the liberation of Belarus and with the Baltic Front. After the war, Sorokin served as a political officer and studied at the Lenin Military-Political Academy between 1948 and 1952. After graduating Sorokin was posted to the Navy and served as a political officer on the destroyers Redkiy and Vdumchevy of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. In 1954 he became political officer aboard the cruiser Kalinin. In 1956 he became political officer of the Pacific Fleet destroyer squadron and in 1959 he became base political officer at Sovetskaya Gavan. Sorokin became chief political officer of the Northern Fleet in 1974 and was promoted to vice admiral in 1975. He became chief political officer of the Soviet Navy in 1980 and deputy chief political officer of the Soviet armed forces in 1981. He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1988 and retired in 1992. In retirement he lived in Moscow and was president of the International Union of CIS War Veterans (Pensioners) Associations. This pamphlet sets forth the Marxist-Leninist position on the purpose, character, and specific features of the people's armed forces, and provides an insight into how they were established and their military organization was strengthened, the sources of their strength, and the functions they are called upon to perform. It examines the development and increasingly close ties between the Soviet Armed Forces and the people, and how this enhances their fighting capabilities. The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, frequently shortened to Red Army, was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established immediately after the 1917 October Revolution. The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War. Beginning in February 1946, the Red Army, along with the Soviet Navy, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces; taking the official name of "Soviet Army", until its dissolution in December 1991. The Red Army provided the largest land force in the Allied victory in the European theater of World War II. During operations on the Eastern Front, it accounted for 75–80% of casualties the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS suffered during the war and ultimately captured the Nazi German capital, Berlin. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Soviet Union, Red Army, Russian Revolution, Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Armed Forces, Great Patriotic War, Socialists, Communists
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