Time-Distance-Mass: Soviet Strategy in World War II

Bruce Menning, adjunct professor of history and Russian and East European studies at the University of Kansas, presents his talk “Time-Distance-Mass: Soviet Strategy in World War II.”

Bruce Menning received his doctorate in history from Duke University. He is a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and a graduate of the Command and General Staff College (CGSC). Menning taught history at Miami University (Ohio) and strategy at CGSC. His research focuses on the military and society in Russia and the Soviet Union and the causes and consequences of military change. He has been a secretary of the Army Fellow and has been awarded grants and fellowships from organizations including IREX, NEH, the Ford Foundation and SSRC. Menning published "Bayonets Before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861-1914" (Indiana Press, 1992).

The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Arizona State Unviersity Melikian Center, the ASU School of International Letters and Cultures and the ASU School of Politics and Global Studies.