...nearly 1,000 entries are brought together on senior Soviet officers, who in the period 1939-1953 were either captured by the enemy, were repressed by Soviet leadership, were killed in combat, or died of illness.
International Review Of Social History, Vol. 52 (2007)
...the mass of biographical and bibliographic material that Parrish has gathered is of extraordinary utility....it is ... Read morethe most complete and accurate source yet available on high-ranking military and police officials. Any researcher on the Soviet army, intelligence services, or high politics should keep a copy close at hand.
The Russian Review
Including all officers above the rank of colonel in his biographical dictionary, Parrish...relies on recently available Soviet archives in order to shed some light on the losses suffered by the Red Army officer corps from 1939 to the death of Stalin in 1953. Some 1000 entries provide basic biographical information for the officer corps and note the manner of death or other form of attrition, covering combat losses, political repression, war captivity, anti-Semitic campaigns, and reduction in rank.
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