Hi there,
Here are some resources for you Cold War '80s wargamers: Firstly, I have two British Army field manuals on the Soviet Army published in 1991. These manuals were written by Charles Dick (operational art) and Michael Orr (tactics), both of the former Soviet Studies Research Centre (SSRC) of RMA Sandhurst.
What is special about these manuals is that during the late '80s, "Sovietologist" organizations like SSRC and the U.S. Army's Soviet Army Studies Office acquired a much more sophisticated understanding of the Soviets compared to older published information (Isby, Suvorov, Zaloga, FM 100-2-1 1984), and the manuals incorporated those expanded views (for example, a better-informed strengths and weaknesses subsection in each chapter, and a better understanding of the Soviet point of view on their way of fighting).
A caveat though: these manuals were written in 1990, and anything interesting that might have been culled from newer Soviet/Russian military journals was not incorporated (that material has been adapted to the publications below).
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Secondly, here are the successors of the Soviet manuals: the Generic Enemy in nine PDFs. They consist of:
Basic Forces: a carbon-copy of a late 1980s Soviet Army-style force reflecting Gorbachev's defensive doctrine and CFE treaty force reductions.
Mobile Forces: a high-quality force based off of Russia's never-realized "Mobile Forces" from the early 1990s (these might be useful for depicting Soviet formations acting as a forward detachment or operational maneuver group, however). I have also attached the 1997 titles as well.
ROWEN: Generic third-world enemy.
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Enjoy!
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