What Stalin knew : the enigma of Barbarossa / David E. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, David E., 1921-2014.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953--Military leadership.

Stalin, Joseph.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.

World War, 1939-1945.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, offering keen insights into Stalin's thinking and the reasons for his catastrophic blunder. "If, after the war, the Soviet Union had somehow been capable of producing an official inquiry into the catastrophe of 6/22-comparable in its mandate to the 9/11 commission here-its report might have read a little like [this book]. . . . Murphy brings to his subject both knowledge of Russian history and an insider's grasp of how intelligence is gathered, analyzed and used-or not."-Niall Ferguson, New York Times Book Review "A fascinating and meticulously researched account of mistaken assumptions and errors of judgment that culminated in Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941. Never before has this fateful period been so fully documented."-Henry A. Kissinger

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Sources

Introduction: Stalin's Absolute Control, Misconceptions, and Disastrous Decisions

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Chapter 1. Stalin versus Hitler: Background

Chapter 2. The Outspoken General: Ivan Iosifovich Proskurov

Chapter 3. Proskurov Sets Stalin Straight

Chapter 4. Soviet Borders Move Westward

Chapter 5. The Finns Fight: Proskurov Made a Scapegoat

Chapter 6. Soviet Military Intelligence Residencies in Western Europe

Chapter 7. Soviet Military Intelligence Residencies in Eastern Europe

Chapter 8. Who Were You, Dr. Sorge? Stalin Never Heard of You.

Chapter 9. NKVD Foreign Intelligence

Chapter 10. Fitin's Recruited Spies

Chapter 11. Listening to the Enemy

Chapter 12. Working on the Railroad

Chapter 13. The Border Troops Knew

Chapter 14. Proskurov Is Fired

Chapter 15. Golikov and Operation Sea Lion

Chapter 16. ''We Do Not Fire on German Aircraft in Peacetime''

Chapter 17. German Deception: Why Did Stalin Believe It?

Chapter 18. Secret Letters

Chapter 19. The Purges Revived

Chapter 20. On the Eve

Chapter 21. A Summer of Torture

Chapter 22. The Final Reckoning

Conclusion: Will the Future Be a Repeat of the Past?

Appendix 1: Organization and Functions of Soviet Military Intelligence

Appendix 2: Hitler's Letters to Stalin

Appendix 3: Those Executed without Trial on October 28, 1941

Appendix 4: Chronology of Agent Reporting

Glossary of Spies and Their Masters

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-299) and index.

ISBN:

9786611722265

9781281722263

128172226X

9780300130263

0300130260

OCLC:

952732281