| ID | 167785 |
| Title Proper | Conscious Movement Toward Armageddon |
| Other Title Information | Preparation of the Third World War in Orders of the USSR War Ministry, 1946–1953 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Gogun, Alexander |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Despite the fact that academia was already aware of the reality of Stalin’s preparation of a Third World War,1
1 ‘Osmyslennoe dvizhenie k Armageddonu. Podgotovka Tret’ei mirovoi voiny v prikazakh voennogo ministerstva SSSR, 1946–1953’, translated by Dr. Harold S. Orenstein, Leavenworth, KS.
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2 V. Zubok, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press 2009) p. 85; A. J. Levine, Stalin’s Last War: Korea and the Approach to World War III (Jefferson, NC: McFarland 2005); K. Zakoretskii, Tret’ia mirovaia voina Stalina [Stalin’s Third World War] (Moscow: Iauza-Press 2009); M. Weiskopf, Pisatel’ Stalin [The Writer Stalin] (Moscow: NLO 2001) p. 83; B. S. Ilizarov, Tainaia zhizn’ Stalina. Po materialam ego biblioteki i arkhivy [Stalin’s Secret Life. According to Materials From His Library and Archives], 2nd ed., corrected and supplemented (Moscow: Veche 2003) p. 459; Istorija Rossii XX vek. Epokha stalinizma (1923-1953) [History of Russia in XX Century. Stalin’s Epoch (1923–1953)]. Vol II., ed. by A. B. Zubov. (Moscow: Izdatel’stvo ‘E’ 2017) pp. 610–744; V. Afiani, A. Fursenko. ‘Stalin khotel voevat’ s SShA. Tol’ko ego smert’ predotvratila Tretju mirovuji’ [Stalin Wanted War with the USA. Only His Death Prevented WWIII], Novaja Gazeta, N 15, 27 February 2003, p. 10.
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until today no coherent answer has been given to the question about whether his decision was unprompted, made in accordance with the situation at the end of the 1940s (the Communist victory in China), or simply the incarnation of a long-term plan. The collection of orders from the USSR’s War Ministry spanning the last eight years of the Leader’s life provide grounds for leaning toward the version of continuity of this development of events, which was interrupted only by the death of the despot in 1953. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol. 32, No.2; Apr-Jun 2019: p.256-279 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol: 32 No 2 |
| Key Words | Third World War ; USSR War Ministry ; 1946–1953 |