THE CLAWS OF THE BEAR

Author: Brian Moynahan

Publisher: Hutchinson

Year published: 1989

Pagination: xx + 468pp, 44 photos.

Condition: New in d/w, may have slight shelfwear.

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May have slight shelfwear. The History of the Soviet Armed Forces, from the revolution in 1917 to the era of Gorbachev, just prior to the fall of the Soviet Union. Their desertion from the Tsar created the world's first communist state, leading to the purges of the thirties and the great battles of WW11 when they defeated Nazi Germany. Post war adventures included Cuba, the crushing of the Hungarian uprising in 1956, the ousting of Dubcek's liberal regime in the Prague Spring of 1968, and the great Soviet misadventure in Afghanistan.