TANKS OF THE USSR 1917-1945

The Soviet Union had already begun building an armoured industry as early as the 1920s. Although initially limited to reconstructing and developing Western European armoured vehicles, an independent line of powerful and easy-to-produce models had been established by 1939. Even after the Second World War, the USSR expanded its armament force considerably, even planning to cross western Europe in a massive armoured wave in the event of any conflict with NATO. In this book, Alexander Ldeke looks at all the important Soviet tanks that were built from 1917 up until the end of the Second World War