| ID | 158506 |
| Title Proper | New from the Russian archives |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Glantz, David M |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Massive recent archival releases by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation promise to revolutionize the historiography of the Soviet-German War, 1941–1945. Hitherto, heavily censored Soviet books and articles concealed much of the detail concerning how and why the Red Army operated as it did during wartime. Although these sources revealed considerable detail concerning the Red Army’s wartime military successes, they contained precious little about less-successful or clearly unsuccessful operations or numbers and figures related to the strength and losses of Red Army forces. This forced historians studying the war to rely heavily on German source materials or to ‘read between the lines’ while interpreting existing Soviet books and articles about the war. As the details in the following article indicate, this situation has drastically changed for the better, while doing so necessitating a thorough re-evaluation of the performance of the Soviet Union’s Red Army during its so-called Great Patriotic War. |
| `In' analytical Note |
Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol. 31, No.1; Jan-Mar 2018: p.122-178 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol: 31 No 1 |
| Key Words | Russian Archives ; New from |