Stalinism And The Soviet Finnish War 1939 40

Author : E.N. Kulkov
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113528301X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stalin and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-1940 written by E.N. Kulkov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the verbatim record of a secret and hitherto unpublished meeting, held in the Kremlin in April 1940, devoted to a post mortem of the Finnish campaign.

Author : Carl Van Dyke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136311572
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Invasion of Finland, 1939-40 written by Carl Van Dyke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western accounts of the Soviet-Finnish war have been reliant on Western sources. Using Russian archival and previously classified secondary sources to document the experience of the Red Army in conflict with Finland, Carl Van Dyke offers a reassessment of the conflict.

Author : Malcolm L. G. Spencer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319946463
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stalinism and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939–40 written by Malcolm L. G. Spencer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an illuminating bridge between the political and social dimensions of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40. The conflict represented a significant crisis for the Soviet Union, inspiring international condemnation and a significant loss of face for its supporters, both at home and abroad. The focus of this study is not upon the military dynamics of the war, but upon its ability to influence events, interpretations and interactions between agents and institutions within the Soviet Union and the wider international communist movement. Through original archival research, this book considers the ways in which the Soviet leadership reacted to the crisis, the tools at its disposal, and the effectiveness with which it managed to manipulate and control the spread of information through official and unofficial channels. It contributes to a more complete and complex picture of the inter-related nature of Soviet politics, propaganda and mass media in this period.

Author : William R Trotter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781312261
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter War written by William R Trotter and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 30 November 1939, Soviet bombers unloaded their bombs on Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Stalin's ultimatum, demanding the cession of huge tracts of territory as a buffer zone against Nazi Germany, had been rejected by the Finnish government, and now a small Baltic republic was at war with the giant Soviet military machine. But this forgotten war, fought under brutal, sub-arctic conditions, often with great heroism on both sides, proved one of the most astonishing in military history. Using guerrilla fighters on skis, even reindeer to haul supplies on sleds, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, and with unfathomable endurance and the charismatic leadership of one of the 20th century's true military geniuses, Finland not only kept at bay but won an epic, if short-lived, victory over the hapless Russian conscripts. Its surreal engagements included the legendary "Sausage Battle", when starving Soviet troops who had over-run a Finnish encampment couldn't resist the cauldrons of hot sausage soup left behind by their opponents - and were ambushed as they stopped to sup. Although by sheer attritional weight of numbers Stalin eventually prevailed over the Finns, their pointed resistance enabled their country to remain free, even as other countries fell one by one.

Author : Eloise Engle
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811714012
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter War written by Eloise Engle and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative account of Finland's brave defense against the Soviet Union in World War II. • Focuses on the human side of one of World War II's toughest campaigns, fought in the frozen expanses of Finland • The Finns held out for 105 days against the Soviet juggernaut • Contains graphic descriptions of combat

Author : Bair Irincheev
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811710882
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War of the White Death written by Bair Irincheev and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 30 November 1939 Stalin's Red Army attacked Finland, expecting to crush the outnumbered, ill-equipped Finnish forces in a matter of days. But, in one of the most astonishing upsets in modern military history, the Finnish defenders broke the Red Army's advance, inflicting devastating casualties and destroying some of the divisions that had been thrown against them. Eventually, in March 1940, the overhauled Red Army prevailed through the deployment of massive force. The Finns were compelled to cede territory and cities to their overbearing neighbour, but the moral victory was theirs. The courage and skill their army displayed in the face of the Soviet onslaught - and the chaotic and reckless performance of their opponents - had an important influence on the massive struggle that was about to break out between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. For this highly illustrated and original portrayal of this famously unequal struggle, Bair Irincheev has brought together a compelling selection of eyewitness accounts, war diaries, battle reports, and other records from the Finnish and Russian archives to reconstruct the frontline fighting, and he analyses the reasons for the Red Army's poor performance. Never before has the harsh reality of the combat in the depths of the northern winter been conveyed in such authentic detail. The arduous daily experience of the troops on both sides, the brutality of combat and the constant struggle against the elements are recalled in the words of the men who were there. AUTHOR: Bair Irincheev is an expert on the troubled twentieth-century history of Finland and Russia and has made a particular study of the Finnish army during the Winter War and the Continuation War that followed. He is based in Helsinki and recently compiled a highly illustrated survey of the Mannerheim Line which was Finland's principal defence against the Soviet Union. Among his previous publications is On the Roads of War: A Soviet Cavalryman on the Eastern Front. SELLING POINTS: * Compelling new account of the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union * Based on eyewitness testimony, was diaries, battle reports, and other records from the Finnish and Russian archives * Authentic portrayal of frontline fighting in the harshest of conditions ILLUSTRATIONS: 90 illustrations *

Author : Max Jakobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finland Survived written by Max Jakobson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eloise Engle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000612511
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter War written by Eloise Engle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introduction to the Winter War, as the Russo-Finnish Conflict of 1939-1940 is called. It discusses the Finnish resistance to the Russian take-over of their country and the Red Army in action; a campaign that perhaps changed the pattern of World War II.

Author : Eloise Engle
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780844666402
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter War written by Eloise Engle and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allen F. Chew
Publisher : Kiwe Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781931195225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Death written by Allen F. Chew and published by Kiwe Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive English-language work on the 105-day war between Finland and Stalin's Soviet Union during the winter of 1939-1940 details the successful resistance of the Finnish forces against the massive Red Army.