Author: Catherine Andreyev
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521389600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement deals with the attempt by Soviet citizens to create a Russian anti-Stalinist liberation movement during the Second World War. These Soviet citizens were mainly prisoners-of-war, forced labourers or part of the population of the occupied territories of the USSR. The Liberation Movement was encouraged by German officers who disagreed with Nazi policy towards the USSR, as their experience showed that treating the population as 'subhumans' (Untermensch) merely increased resistance to Nazi occupation. Throughout the development of the Liberation Movement there existed a divergence of aims between the Russian members who wished to form an army and a political movement which would effect change within the USSR, and its German supporters who merely wished to alter the type of propaganda directed towards the population of the USSR. Catherine Andreyev provides an account of the evolution of the Russian Liberation Movement and examines the motivation of the titular leader of the movement, Lieutenant-General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov. The main focus of the book is the ideology of the Liberation Movement, the importance of which lies in the fact that it represented the first grass-roots opposition movement within the Soviet Union since the end of the Civil War in 1922. The programme of the Movement reflects issues which would have been raised by citizens in the 1930s had they been free to do so. Catherine Andreyev examines influences on the programme, and the ideas expressed are placed within the context of the pre-war Soviet and Russian émigré society.
Author: Robert Bentley Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Author: George Fischer
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Author: Catherine Andreyev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-communist movement
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Catherine Andreyev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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Author: OLEG. PETROV BEYDA (IGOR.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781526780010
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Jury Azarenko
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Author: Roman Waschuk
Publisher: CIUS Press
ISBN: 9780920862360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The history of Ukraine during World War II.
Author: Jury Azarenko
Publisher:
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Author: Christopher Simpson
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497623065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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A searing account of a dark “chapter in U.S. Cold War history . . . to help the anti-Soviet aims of American intelligence and national security agencies” (Library Journal). Even before the final shots of World War II were fired, another war began—a cold war that pitted the United States against its former ally, the Soviet Union. As the Soviets consolidated power in Eastern Europe, the CIA scrambled to gain the upper hand against new enemies worldwide. To this end, senior officials at the CIA, National Security Council, and other elements of the emerging US national security state turned to thousands of former Nazis, Waffen Secret Service, and Nazi collaborators for propaganda, psychological warfare, and military operations. Many new recruits were clearly responsible for the deaths of countless innocents as part of Adolph Hitler’s “Final Solution,” yet were whitewashed and claimed to be valuable intelligence assets. Unrepentant mass murderers were secretly accepted into the American fold, their crimes forgotten and forgiven with the willing complicity of the US government. Blowback is the first thorough, scholarly study of the US government’s extensive recruitment of Nazis and fascist collaborators right after the war. Although others have approached the topic since, Simpson’s book remains the essential starting point. The author demonstrates how this secret policy of collaboration only served to intensify the Cold War and has had lasting detrimental effects on the American government and society that endure to this day.
