Generalissimo Stalin

Name: Generalissimo Stalin
Author: Gorbachevsky, Boris
ISBN: 9781909384255

Gorbachevsky, Boris

Language: English

Published by HELION & CO, 2014

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This new book from the author of Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier s War on the Eastern Front reveals a bitter truth about that war, which has thrown neo-Stalinists in Russia today into a fury.KlappentextThis new book from th.

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Title: Generalissimo Stalin
Author: Gorbachevsky, Boris
Publisher: HELION & CO
Publication year: 2014
Condition: New
Binding: Soft cover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1909384259
ISBN 13: 9781909384255

This new book from the author of Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front reveals a bitter truth about that war, which has thrown neo-Stalinists in Russia today into a fury. A frontline veteran who survived the most savage and continuous fighting of the Second World War refutes one of the primary Soviet myths: that it was Stalin's "brilliant strategic mind" and his "invaluable contributions" that brought about the eventual victory. Partially relying on his own frontline experience in fighting from Rzhev 1942 to Königsburg 1945, the author argues that the Red Army emerged victorious from the war in spite of the Kremlin tyrant, who never spared his soldiers' lives and who recognized only one strategy: to break the Wehrmacht's resistance by overloading it with the corpses of Red Army soldiers. He maintains that it was the people who won the war, but Stalin stole the mantle of victory and donned it himself after the war. Gorbachevsky goes on to argue that the Soviet regime and recent official Russian estimates deliberately understated the staggering true cost of that victory, and reveals the scandalous official mistreatment of returning prisoners-of-war, neglect of war invalids and disregard of the millions of soldiers' remains lying in shallow, unmarked, often fraternal graves and the millions more still listed as"missing-in-action" - all of which show the Stalinist system's disdain for human life. About the Author Boris Gorbachevsky is a Red Army veteran of three years of combat on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. Twice wounded, he rose to the rank of captain, and was decorated with four Orders and many medals for his service in campaigns that took him from Rzhev in 1942 to the shores of the Baltic and on to Czechoslovakia by war's end. He is a 1950 graduate of the Moscow Printing Institute, where he worked for the next 40 years as an instructor, journalist and editor. He is the author of 24 books published in Russia, six of them children's books, and for 20 years served as the editor of the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information's monthly journal Izdatel'skoe delo i poligrafiia [Publishing and Printing]. In 1994 he moved to Rhode Island , where for 6 years he published the state's sole Russian-language journal Vestnik Rod-Ailenda. In 2007 he published his memoirs in Russia, Rzhevskaia Miasorubka [The Rzhev Slaughterhouse], which were translated into English and published by the University Press of Kansas in 2008 under the title Through the Maelstrom. Today Boris Gorbachevsky resides in the state of New York.

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Boris Gorbachevsky is a Red Army veteran of three years of combat on the Eastern Front of the Second World War. Twice wounded, he rose to the rank of captain, and was decorated with four Orders and many medals for his service in campaigns that took him from Rzhev in 1942 to the shores of the Baltic and on to Czechoslovakia by war's end. He is a 1950 graduate of the Moscow Printing Institute, where he worked for the next 40 years as an instructor, journalist and editor. He is the author of 24 books published in Russia, six of them children's books, and for 20 years served as the editor of the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information's monthly journal Izdatel'skoe delo i poligrafiia [Publishing and Printing]. In 1994 he moved to Rhode Island , where for 6 years he published the state's sole Russian-language journal Vestnik Rod-Ailenda. In 2007 he published his memoirs in Russia, Rzhevskaia Miasorubka [The Rzhev Slaughterhouse], which were translated into English and published by the University Press of Kansas in 2008 under the title Through the Maelstrom. Today Boris Gorbachevsky resides in the state of New York.

Stuart Britton is a freelance translator who resides in Cedar Rapids, IA. He is responsible for a growing number of translated Russian military memoirs, battle histories and operational studies, which saw an explosion in Russia with the opening of secret military archives and the emergence of new Russian scholars who take a more objective look at the events and historical figures. Two works that received prizes or prominent acclaim were Valeriy Zamulin’s Demolishing a Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk 1943 and Lev Lopukhovsky’s The Viaz’ma Catastrophe, 1941: The Red Army’s Disastrous Stand Against Operation Typhoon. Notable recent translations include Valeriy Zamulin’s The Battle of Kursk: Controversial and Neglected Aspects and Igor Sdvizhkov’s Confronting Case Blue:Briansk Front’s Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus, July 1942. Future translated publications include Nikolai Ovcharenko’s analysis of the defense, occupation and liberation of Odessa, 1941-1944, and Zamulin’s detailed study of 7th Guards Army’s role and performance in the Battle of Kursk against Army Detachment Kempf.

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