Barbarossa 1941 : reframing Hitler's invasion of Stalin's Soviet empire /
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| Author / Creator: | Ellis, Frank, 1953- author. |
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| Imprint: | Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015] |
| Description: | xxviii, 568 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Modern war studies Modern war studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10447995 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Unternehmen Barbarossa: Conception, Planning, and Execution
- Introduction
- Heinz Guderian and the Development of German Armored Warfare Doctrine
- Soviet Military Thought, 1918-1941
- Mikhail Frunze
- Vladimir Triandafillov
- Georgii Isserson
- Weisung Nr. 21 and Planning for Barbarossa
- Terrain and Weather in the Barbarossa Zone of Operations
- Planning for Occupation, Control, Exploitation, and Extermination
- Agricultural Exploitation
- Security and Punitive Measures
- Conclusion
- 2. The Commissar Order: Reflections on an Enduring Controversy
- Introduction
- The German View of the Commissar Order
- Statistical Assessment of the Number of Military Commissars Executed under the Commissar Order
- The Commissar Order and the Katyn Memorandum no Conclusion
- 3. Dance of the Snakes: Soviet and German Diplomacy, August 1939-June 1941
- Introduction
- The Non-Aggression Pact
- The Secret Supplementary Protocol
- The Friendship and Border Treaty
- Soviet Moves against Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bessarabia, and Northern Bukovina
- Ongoing German-Soviet Discord
- The Endgame
- Conclusion
- 4. The Soviet Intelligence Assessment of German Military Intentions, 1939-1941
- Introduction
- June 1940
- July 1940
- August 1940
- September 1940
- October 1940
- November 1940
- December 1940
- January 1941
- February 1941
- March 1941
- April 1941
- May 1941
- June 1941
- Conclusion
- 5. NKVD Operations during Barbarossa, 1941-1942
- Introduction
- Internal Security
- The Arrest, Interrogation, and Execution of General Dmitrii Pavlov
- Partisans: The People's Avengers
- Combating Enemy Parachutists
- Railway Security
- Deportation of National Minorities
- Conclusion
- 6. 20th Panzer Division and the Diary of Gefreiter H. C. von Wiedebach-Nostitz
- Introduction: 20th Panzer Division, October 1940-April 1942
- Overview: The Diary of Gefreiter von Wiedebach-Nostitz
- Von Wiedebach-Nostitz's Diary Concerning the Campaign in Russia: From Arnstadt, 17 June 1941, to Reinerz, 17 February 1942
- Conclusion
- 7. The German Invasion in Soviet-Russian War Literature
- Introduction
- Vasilii Grossman, The People Art Immortal (1942)
- Vasilii Grossman's War Diaries (August 1941-Winter 1941-1942)
- Alexander Bek, The Volokolamsk Highway (1943-1944)
- Konstantin Simonov, The Living and the Dead (1959)
- Conclusion
- 8. Viktor Suvorov, the Stalin Attack Thesis, and the Start of World War II
- Introduction
- Military Indicators
- Dismantling Fortifications
- Suvorov's Interpretation of Stalin's 5 May 1941 Speech
- The Published Version of Stalin's Speech and the Stalin Attack Thesis
- Dismantling of the Soviet Partisan Network
- Warnings from Winston Churchill and Richard Sorge
- The Soviet Defensive Plan
- Soviet Airpower and Planning
- Overall Assessment of Suvorov's Thesis
- Conclusion
- 9. The Legacy of Unternehmen Barbarossa
- Introduction
- Barbarossa and Stalin
- Reasons for the Failure of Barbarossa
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Translation of Lavrentii Beria's Memorandum to Stalin, 5 March 1940
- Appendix B. Translation of Stalin's Speech in the Kremlin to Graduates of the Academies of the RKKA, 5 May 1941
- Appendix C. Translation of TASS Communiqué, 13 June 1941
- Appendix D. Translation of the Formal Interrogation Record of General Dmitrii Grigor'evich Pavlov, 7 July 1941
- Appendix E. Translation of Polozheuie o voennykh komissarakh Raboche-Krest'ianskoi Krasnoi Armii (Statute Concerning Military Commissars of the Worker-Peasant Red Army), 16 July 1941
- Appendix F. Translation of Erloß über die Ausübung der Kriegsgerkhtsbarkeit im Gebiet Barbarossa" und über besondere Maßnahmen der Truppe (Decree Concerning the Implementation of Military Jurisdiction in the Barbarossa Zone and Concerning Special Measures for the Troops), 13 May 1941
- Appendix G. Translation of Richtlinien für die Behandlung politischer Kommissare (Guidelines for the Treatment of Political Commissars), 6 June 1941
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
