Belonging to the Higher Military Elite in the USSR meant to be close to the supreme power: to manage the country’s military organization, to promote the heads of the state in solving foreign policy and defense tasks where military force was required, to manage the fighting in wars and military conflicts. This kind of task was mainly trusted by the owners of the highest military titles – the Marshal of the Soviet Union and the admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union. But the proximity to the Kremlin and the Old Square was dual in nature: it guaranteed considerable political and material dividends to the highest military leaders of the Navy, but at the same time pulled them into an acute struggle for power and was sometimes accompanied by physical and political cleaning.
This book differs from others written on related topics in that for the first time under one cover, sociocultural portraits of all marshals of the Soviet Union and the admirals of the fleet of the Soviet Union without exception were combined under one cover. This makes it possible through Konk …
Author
Rubtsov Yuri Viktorovich
Editor
Rychkova E.I.
Publisher
Ix History, 2015
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