Gorshkov's gambit

Journal of Strategic Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 261-280

  Kurth, Ronald J ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attach ; Cold war; Gorshkov; Soviet Navy; U.S. Navy

Indexed keywords

POLITICAL HISTORY;

EID: 19044363981     PISSN: 01402390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402390500088320     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Nikita S. Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, trans. and ed. Strobe Talbot (Boston, MA and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company 1974) pp.25-8.
2. S.G. Gorshkov, Vo Flotskom Stroyu [In the Navy Line] (St Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo 'LOGOS' 1996) p.209. The translations from the Russian are those of the author.
3. I b i d.,pp.13-31.
4. I b i d. p.35.
5. P.F. Ablamonov, Admiral: O Dvazhdiy Geroye Sovetskovo Soyuza S.G. Gorshkovye [Admiral: About the Twice Hero of the Soviet Union S.G. Gorshkov] (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Politicheskoy Literaturi 1986) p.7.
6. I b i d. p.44.
7. Gorshkov (note 2) p.161.
8. I b i d. pp.161-2.
9. I b i d. p.162.
10. Khrushchev (note 1) p.21.
11. I b i d. p.28.
12. I b i d.
13. Khrushchev (note 1) p.20.
14. I b i d. <
15. 'Russia's Navy: A New Challenge at Sea', Time 91, 23 Feb. 1968, pp.23-8. The assertion of the order from Khrushchev is made in this article (p.27), but I have never found it anywhere else.
16. Khrushchev (note 1) pp.512-13.
17. Gorshkov (note 2) p.35.
18. I have written 'reasonably balanced' because he needed fleet tactical aviation (aircraft carriers) and that goal took time.
19. Time, p.23.
20. I b i d.
21. I b i d.
22. I b i d.
23. Gorshkov (note 2) p.359.
24. Capt. Peter Huchthausen, USN (retd.) has documented two of these accidents in his books, K-19, the Widow Maker, and In Hostile Waters. A movie with Harrison Ford was made about K-19. More recent accidents were the Komsomolets and the Kursk.
25. There was a meeting aboard the Storezhevoy but not for the purpose of leaving her Baltic port of Riga to make a run for Sweden. Her altruistic zampolit (political deputy), Valery M. Sablin, was immensely influential and persuasive with the crew. Having locked the captain in a below decks compartment, the plan was to get underway, steam into Leningrad harbor, and foment a new revolution to rediscover the original ideals of the Bolshevik revolution which had been corrupted by Party-member privilege and abandonment of original revolutionary social goals. The scheme was foiled by the early alarm of a crew member who sneaked over the side. The leader of the failed attempt, Valery Sablin, now lies dead in an unmarked and unknown grave. See < www.newyouth.com/archives/russia/ red_october_true_story_20000912.asp>.
26. David Faithall, Russian Sea Power (Boston, MA: Gambit Incorporated 1971) p.15.
27. S.G. Gorshkov, Morskoya Mosch' Gosudarstvo [Sea Power of the State] (Moscow: Voyennoye Izdatel'stvo 1976) p.10.
28. S.G. Gorshkov, Red Star Rising at Sea, ed. Herbert Preston, trans. Theodore A. Neely, Jr. (Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute 1974) p.121.
29. Ablamonov (note 5) pp.47-S2.
30. Fairfiall (note 26) p.250.
31. I b i d. p.249.
32. Gorshkov, In the Navy Line (note 2) p.359.
33. I b i d. pp.337-55.
34. John F. Lehman, Jr., Command of the Seas (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1988) p.117.
35. Jane's Fighting Ships (New York: Jane's Publishing, Inc. 1984-85) pp.497-587.
36. I b i d. pp.633-742.
37. See < http://seafarer.netfirms.com/2/kiev.htm >, p.1.