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Thirty million men and women served in the Red Army during WWII. Over eight million of them died. Living or dead, they have remained anonymous. This is partly due to the Soviet Union's policy of stressing the collective nature of its sacrifice and victory. It also reflects the continuing reluctance of most Soviet veterans to discuss their experiences—in sharp contrast to German survivors of the Eastern Front. Merridale, professor of history at the University of London, combines interviews, letters and diaries with research in previously closed official archives to present the first comprehensive portrait of the Red Army's fighters. She carefully details the soldiers' age and ethnic diversity, and she puts a human face on a fact demonstrated repeatedly by retired U.S. officer and Soviet military expert David Glantz: the Red Army learned from the experience of its near-collapse in 1941, and by 1945 its soldiers were more than a match for their Wehrmacht opponents. Most poignantly, Merridale reveals that frontline soldiers increasingly hoped their sacrifices would bring about postwar reform—"Communism with a human face." What they got instead was a Stalinist crackdown—and a long silence, broken now by this outstanding book. (Feb.)
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Doing research in the Soviet archives seems like a trying task, but critics revere the work Catherine Merridale did to prepare Ivan's War. The professor from Queen Mary, University of London, conducted over 200 interviews with Soviet veterans and visited major battle sites, but the most enlightening information came from tireless vetting of diaries, transcripts, and officers' reports. That Merridale can plait all this information into "an attempt to fathom war's meaning, effect and legacy" (Foreign Affairs) proves her acuity as a social historian, a skill she displayed previously with the admirable Night of Stone (2002). Only a curious absence of maps mars an otherwise compelling testament to these tragic, unsung warriors.
Thirty million men and women served in the Red Army during WWII. Over eight million of them died. Living or dead, they have remained anonymous. This is partly due to the Soviet Union's policy of stressing the collective nature of its sacrifice and victory. It also reflects the continuing reluctance of most Soviet veterans to discuss their experiences—in sharp contrast to German survivors of the Eastern Front. Merridale, professor of history at the University of London, combines interviews, letters and diaries with research in previously closed official archives to present the first comprehensive portrait of the Red Army's fighters. She carefully details the soldiers' age and ethnic diversity, and she puts a human face on a fact demonstrated repeatedly by retired U.S. officer and Soviet military expert David Glantz: the Red Army learned from the experience of its near-collapse in 1941, and by 1945 its soldiers were more than a match for their Wehrmacht opponents. Most poignantly, Merridale reveals that frontline soldiers increasingly hoped their sacrifices would bring about postwar reform—"Communism with a human face." What they got instead was a Stalinist crackdown—and a long silence, broken now by this outstanding book. (Feb.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Doing research in the Soviet archives seems like a trying task, but critics revere the work Catherine Merridale did to prepare Ivan's War. The professor from Queen Mary, University of London, conducted over 200 interviews with Soviet veterans and visited major battle sites, but the most enlightening information came from tireless vetting of diaries, transcripts, and officers' reports. That Merridale can plait all this information into "an attempt to fathom war's meaning, effect and legacy" (Foreign Affairs) proves her acuity as a social historian, a skill she displayed previously with the admirable Night of Stone (2002). Only a curious absence of maps mars an otherwise compelling testament to these tragic, unsung warriors.
Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
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Red Army, Soviet Union, Alexander Werth, Black Sea, East Prussia, Lev Lvovich, Mikhail Ivanovich, First World War, Lev Kopelev, Red Square, Special Section, United States, Vitaly Taranichev, Comrade Stalin, David Samoilov, Ilya Natanovich, Ivan Vasilevich, Konstantin Simonov, Nikolai Moskvin, Tenth Army, Central Europe, Central Front, Gabriel Temkin, Ilya Ehrenburg, Ivan Gorin New!
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Red Army, Soviet Union, Alexander Werth, Black Sea, East Prussia, Lev Lvovich, Mikhail Ivanovich, First World War, Lev Kopelev, Red Square, Special Section, United States, Vitaly Taranichev, Comrade Stalin, David Samoilov, Ilya Natanovich, Ivan Vasilevich, Konstantin Simonov, Nikolai Moskvin, Tenth Army, Central Europe, Central Front, Gabriel Temkin, Ilya Ehrenburg, Ivan Gorin New!
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- Night of Stone by Catherine Merridale on 8 pages
- Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics) by Vasily Grossman on 4 pages
- The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-famine by Robert Conquest in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Second World War by John Keegan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Inside the Soviet Army by Viktor Suvorov in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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