The chief culprit : Stalin's grand design to start World War II /

Main Author: Suvorov, Viktor
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, c2008.
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260 3 4 |a Annapolis, MD :  |b Naval Institute Press,  |c c2008. 
300 3 4 |a xxii, 328 p., [32] p. of plates :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 26 cm. 
504 3 4 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-318) and index. 
505 3 4 |a 1. The struggle for peace, and its results -- 2. First attempts to unleash a Second World War -- 3. The first contact -- 4. Stalin's role in the rebirth of German war power -- 5. Why did Stalin like Hitler's book so much? -- 6. Industrialization and collectivization -- 7. Stalin's role in elevating Hitler -- 8. Stalin and the destruction of Soviet strategic aviation -- 9. Stalin's preparations for war : tanks -- 10. On the "obsolete" Soviet tanks -- 11. Winged Genghis Kahn -- 12. About "obsolete" airplanes -- 13. Soviet airborne assault troops and their mission -- 14. About the brilliant military leader Tukhachevski -- 15. The cleansing -- 16. Spain -- 17. Stalin's trap for Hitler -- 18. Results of the Moscow Pact -- 19. Blitzkrieg in Poland and Mongolia -- 20. Mobilization -- 21. Mobilization of the economy -- 22. The winter war : Finland -- 23. Germany's strategic resources and Stalin's plans -- 24. The carving up of Romania, and its consequences -- 24. Destruction of the buffer states between Germany and the Soviet Union -- 26. Destruction of the security pale on the eve of the war -- 27. Partisans or saboteurs? -- 28. Destruction of the Stalin Line -- 29. Trotsky murdered, Molotov in Berlin -- 30. Kremlin games -- 31. All the way to Berlin! -- 32. Mountain divisions on the steppes of Ukraine -- 33. Stalin in May -- 34. June 13, 1941 -- 35. Words and deeds -- 36. Red Army, black Gulag uniforms -- 37. Military alignment -- 38. Churchill's warning and Stalin's reaction -- 39. A Blitzkrieg against Russia? -- 40. Intelligence reports and Stalin's reaction -- 41. The war has begun -- 42. Stalin's panic -- 43. If it weren't for winter! -- 44. A model war. 
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