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2002
Abstract In its expansion from grand duchy to empire, Russia created for herself long frontiers that needed more military support than the economy could provide. One way of making this burden manageable was a good intelligence service, which might at least predict from which direction the next blow would fall.
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Abstract In its expansion from grand duchy to empire, Russia created for herself long frontiers that needed more military support than the economy could provide. One way of making this burden manageable was a good intelligence service, which might at least predict from which direction the next blow would fall.
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Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2015
Conclusions based on a broad panorama of international relations between 1919 and 1939 and on the analysis of trends in the development of Germany and the Soviet Union in the interwar period, are made concerning the causes of WWII and its “turn to the East” on June 22, 1941, the growth of Soviet military art, and the crash of the bloc of aggressors. In
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Conclusions based on a broad panorama of international relations between 1919 and 1939 and on the analysis of trends in the development of Germany and the Soviet Union in the interwar period, are made concerning the causes of WWII and its “turn to the East” on June 22, 1941, the growth of Soviet military art, and the crash of the bloc of aggressors. In
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Leningrad During the Great Patriotic War
Russian Studies in History, 2013Leningraders facing famine and cold in their blockaded city during the winter of 1941-42 survived through a mixture of mutual assistance, creative lawbreaking, self-distraction, and fatalism. Their spirit revived with the spring, permitting a series of measures that prepared them to withstand the ongoing siege.
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Spaniards in the Great Patriotic War
Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, 2022Hundreds of Spanish volunteers who had ended up in the Soviet Union in various ways during or after the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) took part in the Great Patriotic War. First, they were Spanish children, including teenagers. Secondly, several thousand members of the Spanish Communist Party and its leaders evacuated after the fall of the Republic ...
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The Great Patriotic War of 1812
Russian Studies in History, 1993The War of 1812 is the brightest page in the military history of our motherland before the October Revolution. That war has been the subject of more study than any other event in the thousand-year history of prerevolutionary Russia. A complete bibliography of the literature on the War of 1812 is yet to appear. Information compiled by Soviet historians,
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The Great Patriotic War 1941–45
1996When Nazi Germany turned on the Soviet Union in June 1941 and launched what was, for Stalin, a surprise invasion, religious leaders immediately leapt to the defence of the Soviet ‘fatherland’, issuing patriotic appeals to the people. As the German forces moved deeper and deeper into Soviet territory and the very existence of the Soviet Union seemed ...
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Patriotism or Nationalism? Faure and the Great War
Journal of the American Musicological Society, 1999Even though Gabriel Fauré's contemporaries championed his music as quintessentially French, Fauré distanced himself from policies of national exclusion in art, and his own construction of French musical style was cosmopolitan. This essay summarizes Fauré's political choices during the Great War, explains his motives, and indicates how some of his ...
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Women in the Great Patriotic War
1999Despite the non-aggression pact which had been signed by the two countries in August 1939, Germany invaded Russia on 22 June 1941. To stimulate the population’s loyalty and its willingness to sacrifice itself for the country, the image of the Soviet woman took on a distinctly iconic form.
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