The Soviet and Russian navies: From the Cold War to the Cold War 2.0, 1945-2024
This chapter examines the rise of the Soviet navy to a truly 'ocean-going' force during the Cold War, its subsequent post-Soviet fall as a Russian force and the more recent rekindling of Russian naval power under Vladimir Putin. At the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union was n...
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| description | This chapter examines the rise of the Soviet navy to a truly 'ocean-going' force during the Cold War, its subsequent post-Soviet fall as a Russian force and the more recent rekindling of Russian naval power under Vladimir Putin. At the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union was not a major naval power, possessing a navy focussed on coastal defence and support of troops on land. Ambitions for a truly 'ocean-going' fleet would not be realised until the 1970s following a period of dramatic growth in Soviet naval power from the mid-1960s onwards. Drivers for this force included the need to combat US nuclear weapons at a distance from the Soviet coastline and the need to deploy and protect the naval leg of the Soviet Union's own strategic nuclear forces. The collapse of the Soviet Union meant a steep decline in post-Soviet Russian naval power, although there has been some attempt to resurrect Russian naval capabilities and reach under the government of Vladimir Putin. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-978102025-05-27T03:15:30Z The Soviet and Russian navies: From the Cold War to the Cold War 2.0, 1945-2024 Muraviev, Alexey This chapter examines the rise of the Soviet navy to a truly 'ocean-going' force during the Cold War, its subsequent post-Soviet fall as a Russian force and the more recent rekindling of Russian naval power under Vladimir Putin. At the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union was not a major naval power, possessing a navy focussed on coastal defence and support of troops on land. Ambitions for a truly 'ocean-going' fleet would not be realised until the 1970s following a period of dramatic growth in Soviet naval power from the mid-1960s onwards. Drivers for this force included the need to combat US nuclear weapons at a distance from the Soviet coastline and the need to deploy and protect the naval leg of the Soviet Union's own strategic nuclear forces. The collapse of the Soviet Union meant a steep decline in post-Soviet Russian naval power, although there has been some attempt to resurrect Russian naval capabilities and reach under the government of Vladimir Putin. 2025 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97810 10.4324/9781003354635-31 unknown |
| spellingShingle | Muraviev, Alexey The Soviet and Russian navies: From the Cold War to the Cold War 2.0, 1945-2024 |
| title | The Soviet and Russian navies: From the Cold War to the Cold War 2.0, 1945-2024 |
| title_full | The Soviet and Russian navies: From the Cold War to the Cold War 2.0, 1945-2024 |
| title_fullStr | The Soviet and Russian navies: From the Cold War to the Cold War 2.0, 1945-2024 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Soviet and Russian navies: From the Cold War to the Cold War 2.0, 1945-2024 |
| title_short | The Soviet and Russian navies: From the Cold War to the Cold War 2.0, 1945-2024 |
| title_sort | soviet and russian navies: from the cold war to the cold war 2.0, 1945-2024 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97810 |