The chief culprit [electronic resource] : Stalin's grand design to start World War II / Viktor Suvorov.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suvorov, Viktor
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2008.
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Variant Title:
Stalin's grand design to start World War II
The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • The struggle for peace, and its results
  • First attempts to unleash a Second World War
  • The first contact
  • Stalin's role in the rebirth of German war power
  • Why did Stalin like Hitler's book so much?
  • Industrialization and collectivization
  • Stalin's role in elevating Hitler
  • Stalin and the destruction of Soviet strategic aviation
  • Stalin's preparations for war: tanks
  • On the "obsolete" Soviet tanks
  • Winged Genghis Kahn
  • About "obsolete" airplanes
  • Soviet airborne assault troops and their mission
  • About the brilliant military leader Tukhachevski
  • The cleansing
  • Spain
  • Stalin's trap for Hitler
  • Results of the Moscow Pact
  • Blitzkrieg in Poland Mongolia
  • Mobilization
  • Mobilization of the economy
  • The winter war: Finland
  • Germany's strategic resources and Stalin's plans
  • The carving up of Romania, and its consequences
  • Destruction of the buffer states between Germany and the Soviet Union
  • Destruction of the security pale on the eve of the war
  • Partisans or saboteurs?
  • Destruction of the Stalin line
  • Trotsky murdered, Molotov in Berlin
  • Kremlin games
  • All the way to Berlin!
  • Mountain divisions on the steppes of Ukraine
  • Stalin in May
  • June 13, 1941 - Words and deeds
  • Red Army, black Gulag uniforms
  • Military alignment
  • Churchill's warning and Stalin's reaction
  • A Blitzkrieg against Russia?
  • Intelligence reports and Stalin's reaction
  • The war has begun
  • Stalin's panic
  • If it weren't for winter!
  • A model war.