Research Catalog

Title

Stalin's commandos : Ukrainian partisan forces on the Eastern front / Alexander Gogun.

Author

Gogun, A. (Aleksandr)

Publication

• London I.B.Tauris, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

x, 314 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits; 23 cm.

Summary

WORLD HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. At the height of World War II, a number of Soviet partisan organisations fought a guerrilla war against the Axis occupation of the Soviet Union. Coordinated and controlled by the Soviet government and modelled on the Red Army, the primary objective of these 'Red Partisans' was the disruption of the Eastern Front's German rear, especially road and railroad communications. Alexander Gogun here looks at the partisan forces operating in Ukraine. Along with Belarus, Ukraine was the first and most devastated Soviet republic, following the German invasion of 1941. The consequences of the occupation for the Ukrainian population were dire. As a result, the partisan movement spread rapidly over the occupied territory. The fighter groups, supported by the Ukrainian Partisan Movement Headquarters in Moscow, operated throughout occupied Ukraine and numbered over 150,000 combatants.

Subjects

• World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Ukraine
• World War, 1939-1945 > Ukraine
• Ukraine > History > German occupation, 1941-1944

Note

• Translated from the Russian.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFD 16-660

ISBN

• 9781784531683
• 1784531685

OCLC

935353883

Author

Gogun, A. (Aleksandr), author.

Title

Stalin's commandos : Ukrainian partisan forces on the Eastern front / Alexander Gogun.

Publisher

London I.B.Tauris, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-660