Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Epigraph vii
4. Preface viii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 What is ‘war’ to the Russians, anyway? 24
7. 2 Winning revolutionary war 49
8. 3 Operation Barbarossa and the Great Victory 90
9. 4 Winning a war in the nuclear age 124
10. 5 War in the information age 162
11. 6 A twenty-first-century blitzkrieg 202
12. Conclusion 246
13. Note on terms and translations 275
14. Abbreviations 277
15. Acknowledgements 278
16. Notes 280
17. Index 324