The Great Bear at War

Dr Chris McNab is an author and historian who specializes in military history and related technology. Over the course of his twenty-year career, he has written more than one hundred titles, almost all with international distribution. Chris has also written extensively for major encyclopaedia series, magazines and newspapers, and he lives in South Wales. Professor Mark Galeotti is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in the UK and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow with the Institute of International Relations Prague. Formerly Senior Lecturer in International History at Keele University and Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, he has also been a Senior Research Fellow with the Foreign Office and a visiting professor at MGIMO, the Russian foreign ministry's university. Mark’s most recent books for Osprey are CAM 332 Kulikovo 1380 and ELI 228 Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine. He lives in the UK.

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Emergence of the Red Army, 1917–39
Chapter 2 Defining Moment 1939–45
Chapter 3 Cold War Army
Chapter 4 Descent into Defeat: Afghanistan 1979–89
Chapter 5 New World Order and the Chechnya Disaster 1989–1996
Chapter 6 Resurgence, 1996–Present

Bibliography and further reading
Index