The Soviet strategic emplacement in Asia

Abstract

The Anniversary Lecture delivered to the Society on Thursday, 12 June 1980. Professor Erickson, whose previous posts included those of Senior Lecturer and Reader, Department of Government, University of Manchester, 1962-67, Visiting Professor, Russian Research Centre, University of Indiana, 1967 and Lecturer in Higher Defence Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1967-69, has been Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh since that date. Publications include The Soviet High Command 1918-41 (1962), Soviet Military Power (1971) and The Road to Stalingrad (1975).