The book investigates NKVD Order 00447 which began the violent process of 'dekulakization' and the system for its implementation across the USSR. The order included quotas for executions and arrests, which were personally reviewed by Stalin.

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The author examines the link/attraction of contemporary terrorist/liberation movements to the ideology of Marxism/Leninism.

Joachim Wieder's book is the most vivid and reliable account of the Wehrmacht's Stalingrad catastrophe. It consists of two parts. The first is a collection of direct personal impressions of a man who survived the tragedy, and the second is an attempt at a critical analysis of the role of German military commanders in the Stalingrad disaster – Field Marshals Paulus and Manstein, and General...

The author examines the rebuilding of the German fleet.

Information about Operation Barbarossa became known to I.V. Stalin. The data on Hitler's insidious plan was obtained by Ilse Stöbe (‘Alta’), the head of a Soviet military intelligence group that operated in Berlin and had access to German state secrets. In December 1942, she was captured by Gestapo agents and executed by guillotine in a Berlin prison... Despite torture, ‘Alta’ did not betray...

The book contains over 200 photographs depicting German paratroopers during World War II, both during training and combat operations. Detailed captions and text allow the reader to clearly understand where, when, and how these elite units of the Third Reich fought. Dramatic documentary accounts of daring paratrooper operations provide a vivid and detailed picture of audacious assaults and...

On the pages of this book, the reader will find more than 200 unique photographs, accompanied by fascinating and detailed captions. The rich illustrative material depicts battles and combat operations of the air forces of the Third Reich during World War II. The previously unpublished photographic materials were recently obtained from European archives, including previously closed archives of...

The book by a group of authors from the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences is based on the latest Russian and foreign archival documents and supplements and deepens our knowledge of the Great Patriotic War. The publication contains sensational documents that reveal the reasons for the belated bringing of our troops to combat readiness at the beginning of the war.

The book examines the military art and arms of the Central Asian nomads, the Huns from their appearance and threat to the Chinese in the 3rd century BC (Xiongnu) to their final movement into Europe in the 4th century under Attila defeating the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, which brought them to the frontier of the Roman Empire.

In 1943, the battles on the Soviet-German front were the most brutal. The German command sought to regain the strategic initiative. The Battle of Kursk was to solve this problem. Carrying out the tasks of the Supreme Command Headquarters, Soviet military intelligence conducted hundreds of secret operations, trying to promptly reveal the plans of Hitler and his generals. Some of the operations...