| List of Plates | p. ix |
| List of Drawings | p. x |
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Series Editor's Preface | p. xiii |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Historiography on the Soviet Navy | p. 4 |
| The Reconstitution Phase, 1920-25 | p. 6 |
| Condition of the Soviet Navy after the Civil War | p. 6 |
| Personnel | p. 7 |
| First Plans for a Reconstitution of the Navy | p. 8 |
| The RKKF and International and National Politics | p. 9 |
| Changes in the Personnel Situation | p. 11 |
| Strategic Considerations | p. 12 |
| Manoeuvres | p. 13 |
| The Restoration of Ships | p. 14 |
| The Consolidation Phase, 1925-32 | p. 19 |
| Stalin on his Way to Dictatorship | p. 19 |
| New Discussions about Strategy | p. 20 |
| The Start of the First Shipbuilding Programme | p. 24 |
| Tanks or Battleships? What Fleet Do We Need? | p. 24 |
| The First Five-Year Plan (1928-32) | p. 27 |
| The 'Small War at Sea' Theory | p. 29 |
| First Repressions of Leaders and Engineers Accused of Sabotage | p. 30 |
| Foreign Aid from Germany | p. 32 |
| Foreign Aid from Italy | p. 34 |
| Shipbuilding in the First Five-Year Plan | p. 35 |
| The Second Five-Year Plan, 1933-37 | p. 41 |
| International Politics and Strategy | p. 41 |
| Shipbuilding and the Forced Industrialization Programme | p. 42 |
| Strategy and Shipbuilding Plans | p. 43 |
| Foreign Aid during the Second Five-Year Plan | p. 45 |
| Submarine Building in the Second Five-Year Plan | p. 46 |
| Medium Submarines | p. 46 |
| Small Submarines | p. 48 |
| Big Submarines | p. 48 |
| Surface Ships in the Second Five-Year Plan | p. 49 |
| Cruisers | p. 49 |
| Destroyer Leaders and Destroyers | p. 51 |
| Minesweepers | p. 53 |
| Motor Torpedo Boats and Other Small Vessels | p. 53 |
| Reasons for Delays during the Second Five-Year Plan | p. 54 |
| The Change to the Big High Seas and Ocean-Going Fleet | p. 58 |
| Stalin's Role | p. 58 |
| International Situation | p. 59 |
| Domestic Policy and the Start of the Purges | p. 60 |
| A New International Naval Arms Race | p. 60 |
| First Soviet Battleship Plans | p. 62 |
| The Spanish Civil War | p. 64 |
| The Third Five-Year Plan | p. 69 |
| The Great Purges against the Army and Navy | p. 69 |
| The Strategic Considerations in 1935-36 | p. 70 |
| The Pacific Fleet | p. 72 |
| The Baltic Fleet | p. 72 |
| The Black Sea Fleet | p. 73 |
| The Northern Fleet | p. 73 |
| The Battleship Building Plans of 1936-37 | p. 74 |
| Changes in Strategic Planning and New Purges | p. 77 |
| New Leaders and a New Strategy in 1939 | p. 79 |
| The Pacific Fleet | p. 80 |
| The Baltic Fleet | p. 81 |
| The Black Sea Fleet | p. 83 |
| The Northern Fleet | p. 84 |
| The River Flotillas | p. 85 |
| The Shipbuilding Organization in the Third Five-Year Plan | p. 85 |
| Foreign Aid in Shipbuilding in the Third Five-Year Plan | p. 88 |
| The State of the Soviet Fleets and the Shipbuilding Programme in the Summer of 1939 | p. 90 |
| Old Ships and Submarines | p. 90 |
| New Surface Ships | p. 90 |
| Submarines | p. 92 |
| New Battleships and Battlecruisers | p. 94 |
| Aircraft Carriers | p. 97 |
| Light Cruisers | p. 98 |
| Destroyer Leaders and Destroyers | p. 99 |
| Smaller Surface Combatants | p. 100 |
| Operations and Tactics Reconsidered | p. 102 |
| The Second World War: The First Two Years | p. 110 |
| Soviet Foreign Policy in Spring and Summer 1939 | p. 110 |
| The First Period of Soviet--German Co-operation 1939-40 | p. 111 |
| Changes in the Strategic Situation, Autumn 1939--Summer 1940 | p. 114 |
| Change from Co-operation to Confrontation, Autumn 1940 | p. 116 |
| New Changes in the Soviet Naval Strategy in 1940 | p. 117 |
| New Changes in the Shipbuilding Programme | p. 119 |
| Conferences on Operations and Tactics in October and December 1940 | p. 121 |
| Hitler and the German Wehrmacht Prepare for 'Barbarossa' | p. 127 |
| The Debate about a Preventive or a Pre-emptive Attack in the Historiography | p. 130 |
| Soviet Preparations for War | p. 131 |
| The Soviet Navy at the Start of the Great Patriotic War | p. 135 |
| The Great Patriotic War, 1941-45 | p. 144 |
| The German Attack | p. 144 |
| Consequences for the Soviet Navy of the German Attack up to mid-1942 | p. 145 |
| Planning and Design Processes during the War: Surface Ships and Vessels | p. 148 |
| Battleships and Battlecruisers | p. 150 |
| Heavy and Light Cruisers | p. 151 |
| Aircraft Carriers | p. 152 |
| Destroyer Leaders and Destroyers | p. 153 |
| Patrol Ships and Minesweepers | p. 154 |
| Small Surface Combatants | p. 156 |
| Building and Planning the Submarines | p. 158 |
| Big Submarines | p. 158 |
| Medium Submarines | p. 159 |
| Small Submarines | p. 160 |
| Special and Midget Submarines | p. 161 |
| Lend-Lease Deliveries of Naval Vessels | p. 162 |
| Lend-Lease Ships for the Northern Fleet | p. 163 |
| Lend-Lease Ships for the Pacific Fleet | p. 165 |
| War Booty Ships up to the End of the War | p. 167 |
| Operations and Losses from mid-1942 to the End of the War | p. 168 |
| Baltic Fleet | p. 168 |
| Black Sea Fleet | p. 168 |
| Northern Fleet | p. 169 |
| Pacific Fleet | p. 170 |
| The Soviet Fleets at the End of the War, September 1945 | p. 170 |
| Baltic Fleet | p. 170 |
| Black Sea Fleet | p. 171 |
| Northern Fleet | p. 172 |
| Pacific Fleet | p. 172 |
| From 1945 to the End of Stalin's Regime | p. 178 |
| First Plans for the New Navy | p. 178 |
| The Soviet Diplomatic Offensive, 1944-45 | p. 179 |
| Ships as Reparation | p. 179 |
| Return of the Lend-Lease Ships | p. 184 |
| The Ten-Year Programme of 1945 (1946-55) | p. 185 |
| Experiences, Strategies and Industrial Capacities | p. 188 |
| Reorganization of the High Command and Purges | p. 190 |
| New Discussions about Strategy | p. 191 |
| Completion of Ships from Pre-war Designs | p. 192 |
| New Surface Ships | p. 193 |
| Battleships | p. 194 |
| Battlecruisers and Heavy Cruisers | p. 195 |
| Light Cruisers | p. 197 |
| Aircraft Carriers | p. 199 |
| Destroyers | p. 201 |
| Patrol Ships | p. 202 |
| Minesweepers | p. 203 |
| Small Combatants | p. 204 |
| Submarines | p. 204 |
| Big Submarines | p. 205 |
| Medium Submarines | p. 205 |
| Small Submarines | p. 206 |
| New Technologies and Changes in the Programme | p. 209 |
| Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons | p. 210 |
| Cruise Missiles and Rockets | p. 210 |
| Politics and Strategy, 1951-56 | p. 215 |
| Why Did Stalin Build his Big Ocean-Going Fleet? | p. 221 |
| Appendices | p. 225 |
| Warships and submarines of the former Imperial Navy, serving in the RKKF/VMF | p. 226 |
| Warships of the RKKF/VMF, laid down or odered, 1926-45 | p. 229 |
| Submarines of the RKKF/VMF, laid down or ordered, 1926-45 | p. 243 |
| Lend-Lease vessels in the VMF, 1941-53 | p. 257 |
| Soviet warships and submarines lost, 1939-45 | p. 260 |
| Warships and submarines, taken as war booty into the VMF, 1944-53 | p. 268 |
| Warships of the VMF, laid down or ordered, 1945-53 | p. 276 |
| Submarines of the VMF, laid down or ordered, 1945-53 | p. 283 |
| Note on Soviet and Russian Sources | p. 293 |
| Bibliography | p. 299 |
| Index | p. 315 |
| Names | p. 315 |
| Ships | p. 319 |
| Projects | p. 331 |
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