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With almost 8,000 entries, this bibliography must occupy pride of place as a guide to Soviet writing on the Great Patriotic War, with its use enhanced by the author index. The main section on military operations has been arranged under the accepted periodization of the Great Patriotic War (June 1941–November 1942, November 1942–3 and 1944–May 1945) with a separate compilation for the Soviet campaign in the Far East (August–September 1945). Two sections of this Part III cover publications and tactics in the Great Patriotic War (see pp. 318–78, numbered entries 3617–4420).

By way of amplification and verification it is possible to use the booklists supplied by
Fremde Heere Ost
(IIId):Ic-Unterlagen Ost, which catalogue Soviet military publications seized by the German army. Quite a large amount of this material dates back before 1941, but that simply serves the cause of continuity: see
Russisches Militdrschrifttum: Bücherverzeichnis
(by separate number), GMD.

It is worth noting also that Stalin receives two citations in this latest Soviet bibliography, his
O Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine Sovetskovo Soyuza
in its five editions (1942, two in 1943, 1944 and 1951) and his wartime correspondence with Allied leaders. Brezhnev was honoured with no less than
eight
bibliographical entries and is included in the first section on the Leninist legacy, Party and state documents, Party and government leaders’ pronouncements.

2. ‘Official histories’, the Party and the government (arranged chronologically)

Stalin, J.V., 0
Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine Sovetskovo Soyuza
(Moscow: Gospolitizdat 1942 (51 pp.), 2nd and 3rd edns 1943, 4th edn 1944, 5th edn 1951 (208 pp.)

Golikov, S.,
Vydayushchiesya pobedy Sovetskoi Armii v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine
(Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 2nd edn 1954). An ‘official’, stylised, Stalinized version of the Great Patriotic War.

Platonov, S.P. (ed.),
Vtoraya mirovaya voina 1939–1945 gg
. (Moscow: Voenizdat 1958). (‘Biblioteka Ofitsera’ series; map supplement.) A major and useful history, deservedly utilized for many years.

Telpukhovskii, B.S.,
Velikaya Otechestvennaya voina Sovetskovo Soyuza 1941–1945
, Kratkii ocherk (Moscow: Gospolitizdat 1959). Tendentious and far from accurate.

Vorob’ev, F.D. and Kravtsov, V.M.,
Velikaya Otechestvennaya voina Sovetskovo Soyuza 1941–1945 gg
. (Moscow: Voenizdat 1961). Written for ‘generals and officers’ of the Soviet Army, this remains a useful and lucid work.

Istoriya Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny Sovetskovo Soyuza 1941–1945
, in six volumes (P.N. Pospelov, Chairman Editorial Commission). Vol. 1 1960, vol. 2 1961, vol. 3 1961, vol. 4 1962, vol. 5 1963, vol. 6 1965. (An enlarged, corrected edition of vol. 1 was issued in 1968 under this reprint label, though this cannot really be described as a second edition; both versions were heavily slanted in the direction of magnifying Khrushchev’s wartime role, together with that of his wartime associates. However, the data suffered no manipulation and this historical work still retains a certain value.) Vols. 1–6 (Moscow: Institut Marksizma-Leninizma/ Voenizdat 1960–65; also revised with vol. 1, 1963–).

Velikaya Otechestvennaya voina Sovetskovo Soyuza 1941–1945
, Kratkaya istoriya (Editorial Commission Chairman, P.N. Pospelov), (Moscow: Voenizdat 1965). See also 2nd edn (Voenizdat 1970) and English language edition,
Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union
(Moscow: Progress Publishers; abridged).

Zhilin, P.A. (ed.),
Velikaya Otechestvennaya voina
, Kratkii nauch.-popul. ocherk (Moscow: Politizdat 1970). (Produced under the auspices of the Institute of Military History.)

Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voina 1941–1945, Kratkii nauchno-populyarnyi ocherk
, Institut Voennoi Istorii Ministerstva Oborony SSSR (Moscow: Politizdat 1970).

Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voina 1941–1945
, Institut Voennoi Istorii Ministerstva Oborony SSSR (Moscow: Politizdat 1973).

Velikaya Pobeda Sovetskogo Naroda 1941–1945
, Akademiya Nauk SSSR (Moscow: Nauka 1976).

Istoriya vtoroi mirovoi voiny 1939–1945
. In 1973 the first volume of this new twelve-volume history of the Second World War was published, a comprehensive and scientific work obviously intended to replace the earlier six-volume history of the Great Patriotic War which had appeared in the Khrushchev period. Four main institutes are involved, the Institute of Military History, the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, the Institute of General History (Academy of Sciences) and the Academy’s Institute of History. Until his death in 1976, Marshal of the Soviet Union A.A. Grechko was named as the head of the Main Editorial Commission; he was followed by Marshal of the Soviet Union D.F. Ustinov, the present Defence Minister. All twelve volumes have now been published, under the imprint of Voenizdat. See vol. 1 1973, vol. 2 1974, vol. 3 1973, vol. 4 1975, vol. 5 1975, vol. 6 1976, vol. 7 1976, vol. 8 1977, vol. 9 1978, vol. 10 1979, vol. 11 1980, vol. 12 1982. The Soviet-German war opens with volume 4.

Samsonov, A.M. (ed.),
Sovetskii Soyuz v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny 1941–1945
, Institut Istorii, Akad. Nauk SSSR (Moscow: Nauka 1976).

Ideologicheskaya rabota KPSS na fronte (1941–1945 gg.)
(Moscow: Voenizdat, 1960).

Kommunisticheskaya Partiya v period Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny, 1941–1945
, Dokumenty i Materialy (Moscow: Gospolitizdat 1961), 704 pp.

Partiino-politicheskaya rabota v Sovetskikh vooruzhennykh silakh v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1963).

Petrov, Yu.P.,
Partiinoi stroitel’stvo v Sovetskoi Armii i Flote (1918–1961)
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1964). (See pp. 341–440 on Party/
Komsomol
, WWII.)

Komkov, G.D.,
Ideino-politcheskaya rabota KPSS v 1944–1945 gg
. (Moscow: Nauka 1965).

Sbornik Dokumentov i Materialov po istorii SSSR Sovetskogo Perioda (1917–1956gg.)
(Moscow: Moscow University 1966).

Partiino-Politicheskaya rabota v Sovetskikh Vooruzhennykh silakh v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny, 1941–1945
, Kratkii Istoricheskii Obzor, Ministerstva Oborony SSSR (Moscow: Voenizdat 1968).

Kommunisticheskaya Partiya v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine, 1941–1945
, Dokumenty i Materialy (Moscow: Voenizdat 1970).

Kirsanov, N.A.,
Partiinye mobilizatsii na front v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny
(Moscow: Moscow University 1972).

SSSR v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 1941–1945 (Kratkaya khronika)
, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Institut Istorii (Moscow: Voenizdat 1964).

SSSR v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 1941–1945gg. Kratkaya khronika
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1970; 2nd edn, revised and enlarged).

3. Theatres of War, Campaigns and Operations

Anfilov, V.A.,
Nachalo Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny (22 iyunya- seredina iyulya 1941 goda)
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1962).

Anfilov, V.A.,
Bessmertnyi podvig
. Issledovanie kanuna i pervovo etapa VOV (Moscow: Nauka 1971).

Anfilov, V.A.,
Proval ‘blitskriga’
(Moscow: Nauka 1974). (The above three books by Anfilov are major works on the German surprise attack and the first stage of the war.)

Antosyak, A.V.,
V boyakh za svobodu Rumynii
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1974). Soviet operations in Rumania.

Bagramyan, I.Kh.,
Gorod-voin na Dnepre
(Moscow: Politizdat 1965). Fall of Kiev/1941.

Barbashin, I.P. and Kharitonov, A.D.,
Boevye deistviya Sovetskoi Armii pod Tikhvinom v 1941 godu
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1958).

Batov, P.I.,
Operatsiya ‘Oder’
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1965). 65th Army in the Berlin operation.

Belkin, I.M.,
13-ya Armiya v Lutsko-Rovenskoi operatsii 1944 g
. (Moscow: Voenizdat 1960). 13th Army, January–February 1944.

Biryuzov, S.S. (ed.),
Sovetskie vooruzhennye sily v bor’be za osvobozhdenie narodov Yugoslavii
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1960). Soviet operations in Yugoslavia.

Blinov, S.I.,
Ot Visly do Odera
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1962). 60th Army Operations, January 1945.

Bor’ba za Sovetskuyu Baltiku v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 1941–1945
, vols. 1 and 2 (Riga: Liesma 1966–7). (See also vol. 3.)

Chuikov, V.I.,
Gvardeitsy Stalingrada idut na zapad
. (Moscow: Sov. Rossiya 1972). (Also as
V boyakh za Ukrainu
, Kiev, 1972.)

Chuikov, V.I.,
Konets Tret’evo Reikha
(Moscow: Sov. Rossiya 1973). (Also in Ukrainian:
Kinets Tretovo Reikhu
, Kiev, 1975).

Chuikov, V.I.,
Srazhenie veka
(Moscow: Sov. Rossiya 1975). Stalingrad, Soviet drive into Ukraine; Berlin 1945.

Eliseyev, E.P.,
Na Belostokskom napravlenii
(Moscow: Nauka 1971). 2nd Belorussian Front, July 1944.

Evstigneyev, V.N. (ed.),
Velikaya bitva pod Moskvoi
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1961). Battle of Moscow.

Galitskii, K.N.,
V boyakh za Vostochnuyu Prussiyu
(Moscow: Nauka 1970). 11th Guards Army, 1944–5.

Grechko, A.A.,
Bitva za Kavkaz
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1967, 2nd edn 1971).

Grechko, A.A.,
Cherez Karpaty
(Moscow: Voenizdat, 2nd edn 1972). Across Carpathians, Soviet operations in Czechoslovakia.

Grylev, A.N.,
Za Dneprom
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1963). Ukrainian operations: January–April 1944.

Grylev, A.N.,
Dnepr-Karpaty-Krim
. Osvobozhdenie Pravoberezhnoi Ukrainy i Kryma v 1944 godu. (Moscow: Nauka 1970).

Istomin, V.P.,
Smolenskaya nastupatel’naya operatsiya (1943 g.)
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1975).

Kharitonov, A.D.,
Gumbinnenskii proryv
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1960). 28th Army, Gumbinnen.

Kir’yan, M.M.,
S Sandomirskovo platsdarma
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1961). 5th Guards Army, January 1945.

Kiryukhin, S.P.,
43 Armiya v Vitebskoi operatsii
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1961).

Klimov, I.D.,
Geroicheskaya oborona Tuly
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1961). 50th Army, defence of Tula, October–December 1941.

Koltunov, G.A. and Solov’ev, B.G.,
Kurskaya bitva
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1970). The standard Soviet work on Kursk.

Koltunov, G.A. and Solov’ev, B.G.,
Ognennaya duga
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1973). Kursk, 1943.

Koniev, I.S. (ed.),
Za osvobozhdenie Chekhoslovakii
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1965). Soviet operations, Czechoslovakia; a major campaign study, with invaluable data and figures.

Korovnikov, I.T.,
Novgorodsko-Luzhskaya operatsiya
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1960). 59th Army offensive, January–February 1944.

Lyudnikov, I.I.,
Pod Vitebskom
(Moscow: Voenizdat 1962). 39th Army operations, June 1944, Vitebsk.