The Chief Culprit (eBook)

Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II

Viktor Suvorov (Autor)

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2013
352 Seiten
Naval Institute Press (Verlag)
978-1-61251-268-6 (ISBN)

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A remarkable book. A delayed bombshell that includes very pertinent new research and discoveries Suvorov has made since 1990. He makes savvy readers of contemporary and World War II history, of a mind to reexamine the Soviet past in terms of what historians call present interest. None of the new Russian historians can match his masterful sweep of research and analysis.ALBERT WEEKS, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, New York University, author of Stalins Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939-1941In The Chief Culprit, bestselling author Victor Suvorov probes newly released Soviet documents and reevaluates existing historical material to analyze Stalins strategic design to conquer Europe and the reasons behind his controversial support for Nazi Germany. A former Soviet army intelligence officer, the author explains that Stalins strategy leading up to World War II grew from Lenins belief that if World War I did not ignite the worldwide Communist revolution, then a second world war would be necessary. Suvorov debunks the theory that Stalin was duped by Hitler and that the Soviet Union was a victim of Nazi aggression. Instead, he makes the case that Stalin neither feared Hitler nor mistakenly trusted him. He maintains that after Germany occupied Poland, defeated France, and started to prepare for an invasion of Great Britain, Hitlers intelligence services detected the Soviet Unions preparations for a major war against Germany. This detection, Suvorov argues, led to Germanys preemptive war plan and the launch of an invasion of the USSR. Stalin emerges from the pages of this book as a diabolical genius consumed by visions of a worldwide Communist revolution at any costa leader who wooed Hitler and Germany in his own effort to conquer the world. In contradicting traditional theories about Soviet planning before the German invasion and in arguing for revised view of Stalins real intentions, The Chief Culprit has provoked debate among historians throughout the world.

Autor

Viktor Suvorov is the author of eighteen books that have been translated into more than twenty languages, including Inside the Aquarium: The Making of a Top Soviet Spy and Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War? A Soviet army officer who served in military intelligence, he defected in 1978 to the United Kingdom, where he worked as an intelligence analyst and lecturer. He lives in England.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 35 b-w photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-61251-268-2 / 1612512682
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61251-268-6 / 9781612512686