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Before World War II the Soviet Union was a regional military power but certainly not a world player. Within a few years after the war, as a result of the rapid development and deployment of new weapons, the USSR had become one of the two global superpowers. Its defence industry, and especially the creation of new production branches for atomic weapons and missiles, jet aviation, and radar, played a fundamental part in this process.
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Harrison, M. (2000). New postwar branches (1): rocketry. In: Barber, J., Harrison, M. (eds) The Soviet Defence-Industry Complex from Stalin to Khrushchev. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378858_6
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