The Growth of The Red Army

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's bright red heavy grain cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xiv], 486pp. Very light wear and soiling, a solid durable book, internally clean with some thumbing to the prelims and some erased pencil notes to the rear pastedown, in a complete and solid dustjacket with some chipping and fraying to spine ends, soiling to the lighter portions and a triangular closed tear to the rear panel that has been repaired with tape. Additionally there is some largely unnecessary tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket. Scrapes into a very good rating by dint of being clean, (truncated) strong and complete, but tape repairs are never a thing we welcome.

An extremely erudite analysis of the history, expansion, and power of the Soviet Red Army, with the added highly intelligent assessment of its importance as a social movement, quite apart from, yet indivisable from, its military significance. (Inventory #: 83665)