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Spetsnaz

Tor Bukkvoll
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780700637911
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Dec 2024
  • Publisher: University Press of Kansas
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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In January 1951, Lieutenant Evgeniy Borisov was sent to the headquarters of the Soviet 5th Army in Spassk-Dalnii, a small city in the Russian Far East. Borisov was there on a secret mission. Together with his superior, Major Rusinov, his job was to establish the 91st Special Forces Company. The 91st was to be one of forty-six similar units spread out across the Soviet Union. The new forces were called “spetsnaz”—short for spetsnialnoe naznachenie, which translates to “special purpose.”

In Spetsnaz, Tor Bukkvoll presents the first in-depth history of the Soviet, and, later, Russian special operations forces from their establishment until today. He focuses on three broad topics: Soviet and later Russian thinking on the use of special operations forces; the actual process of constructing these forces and how this was facilitated or hampered by other agencies of the Soviet and Russian states; and the use of these forces in combat.

Bukkvoll uses a variety of sources, but the most important are the recollections of former spetsnaz soldiers and officers themselves, which allow Bukkvoll to present the history of these forces as the men of spetsnaz see and have seen it. Bukkvoll also draws upon observations and judgments from other parts of the Soviet and Russian militaries, from a number of KGB sources, and from independent Russian experts and journalists.

Spetsnaz is essential reading for anyone interested in special operations forces or Russian military history.
About Tor Bukkvoll
Tor Bukkvoll is senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment in Kjeller, Norway. He is the author of Ukraine and European Security. A specialist in Russian and Ukrainian security and defense policies, Bukkvoll has been a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford and the Naval Postgraduate School.

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