Military Counter-Intelligence of Belarus. The book examines the history, operations and tragedies in the counter-intellingence units of Belarus.

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The book examines the military reforms conducted under Tsar Paul I in which he tried to reshape the Russian Army closer to the model of the Prussian Army.

This collective study incorporates articles by both Russian and foreign authors covering the period of the Great Patriotic War and the first post-war years. A lot of attention is has been devoted to the Soviet policy towards Poland, which made it possible to reflect the full measure of the complex and controversial nature of the Polish problem.

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.