546 THE RED ARMY 1922-41: From Civil War to Barbarossa

Explores the interwar history of the Red Army, from victory in the Civil War to onslaught of Germans in 1941. Detail campaigns, organization, and uniforms. The Red Army of the 1920s was employed to ruthlessly crush anti-Bolshevik opposition (real or suspected) in several regions of the USSR, notably Ukraine and Central Asia, and to fight a brief border war against Chinese Manchuria. During the 1930s, purges decimated the officer class even as the USSR sent troops to Spain and defeated Japan and Finland.