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Soviet partisan : 1941-44 / Nik Cornish ; illustrated by Andrei Karachtchouk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornish, Nik, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Warrior series ; 171.
- Warrior ; 171
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Guerrillas--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Guerrillas.
- Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Osprey Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The partisan war in the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944 has been the subject of considerable political manipulation in the decades following 1945. In great part this was due to the need to project the image of a country united behind Joseph Stalin and the Communist regime when the truth was much more complex than that. The opening weeks of Operation Barbarossa had exposed the lack of unity in the Soviet Empire as nationalist and anti-Communist groups emerged in the western provinces such as Belo Russia, Galicia, Bukovina, Ukraine and the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Conseq
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Recruitment; Training; Organization; Appearance; Equipment; Conditions of Service; On Campaign; Belief and Belonging; Experience of Battle; After the Battle; Museums and Collections; Bibliography; Glossary; Related Titles; Imprint
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4728-0144-X
- 1-4728-0145-8
- OCLC:
- 1021808949
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