Underemphasized is the horrible condition of the Soviet civilian economy during the war.
http://books.google.com/books?id=dcAgT_2uiYgC&dq=dunn+soviet+economy+red+army&source=gbs_navlinks_s
The Soviet production miracle came at its expense. Without the transportation hub of Moscow, armies can't be moved around as well AND the civ. economy takes one more big hit. At the very least, much more lend lease becomes direct food aid, farm tractors, machine tools and rail stock, as opposed to trucks, uniforms and aluminum. Economic planners will have to cut back on the war economy At worst, the morale and economic shock sends the Soviet system into worse chaos than they experienced in October '41 (if I recall correctly, that was the bad month), and find themselves pushed out of too much of European Russia by the time they recover.
Also underemphasized was the Soviet manpower shortage. Not so much an absolute shortage of people who could hold guns as trying to keep the economy and the army running. Recaptured, unevacuated territory was a vital source of manpower for the red army.
http://books.google.com/books?id=t2xaTzpCVQQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=stalin's+keys+to+victory+dunn&source=bl&ots=DvKJ6jGWlp&sig=5ElIvi3GPIUnKdjwHRgT4J2-0_s&hl=en&ei=Eq-aS9nJCIjWsQP-stCdAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ6AEwAA
http://books.google.com/books?id=dcAgT_2uiYgC&dq=dunn+soviet+economy+red+army&source=gbs_navlinks_s
The Soviet production miracle came at its expense. Without the transportation hub of Moscow, armies can't be moved around as well AND the civ. economy takes one more big hit. At the very least, much more lend lease becomes direct food aid, farm tractors, machine tools and rail stock, as opposed to trucks, uniforms and aluminum. Economic planners will have to cut back on the war economy At worst, the morale and economic shock sends the Soviet system into worse chaos than they experienced in October '41 (if I recall correctly, that was the bad month), and find themselves pushed out of too much of European Russia by the time they recover.
Also underemphasized was the Soviet manpower shortage. Not so much an absolute shortage of people who could hold guns as trying to keep the economy and the army running. Recaptured, unevacuated territory was a vital source of manpower for the red army.
http://books.google.com/books?id=t2xaTzpCVQQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=stalin's+keys+to+victory+dunn&source=bl&ots=DvKJ6jGWlp&sig=5ElIvi3GPIUnKdjwHRgT4J2-0_s&hl=en&ei=Eq-aS9nJCIjWsQP-stCdAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ6AEwAA