The great patriotic war of the Soviet Union, 1941-45 : a documentary reader / Alexander Hill.

"First published in 2009"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-340) and index.

Lenin, Stalin and the West 1917-1939 -- The Icebreaker controversy and Soviet intentions in 1941 -- Barbarossa -- The battle of Moscow -- The tide turns : the battle for Stalingrad -- The battle of Kursk and the race for the Dnepr -- The siege of Leningrad -- Lend-lease aid, the Soviet economy and the Soviet Union at war -- The Soviet partisan movement -- The 'ten "Stalinist" crushing blows' of 1944 -- From the Vistula to Berlin : the end of the Reich -- The Soviet invasion of Manchuria.

This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the {u2018}Great Patriotic War{u2019} of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45. Despite the historical significance of the war, few Soviet documents have been published in English. This work provides translations of a range of extracts from Soviet documents relating to the titanic struggle on the Eastern Front during World War II, with commentary. This is the only single-volume work in English to use documentary evidence to look at the Soviet war effort from military, political, economic and diplomatic perspectives. The book should not only facilitate a deeper study of the Soviet war effort, but also allow more balanced study of what is widely known in the West as the {u2018}Eastern Front{u2019}. This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of military history, Soviet history, and World War II history.