Overview
Partisans and terrorists have dominated military history during the second half of the 20th century. Leonid Grenkevich offers an account of the shadowy partisan struggle that accompanied the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).Synopsis
In history guerrilla warfare always played an important role whether it was of a large scale or of a limited character fighting. Grenkevich traces its impact on military history in the 18th and 19th century in Europe and North America. He carefully analyses the Russian partisan movement from the first bloody encounters in the 1870s, taking into account the social, economic and political configurations of Russia. The work details how the Communist Party studied the Red guerrillas' fighting experience at the end of 1918 and included in the Red Army's Field Manual a special chapter named 'Partisan Operations'. During the Second World War the most significant partisan war took place. The relationship between the Party, the Red Army and the Partisan Movements is covered in the main body of Grenkevich's historical research. This study is a response to the lack of a comprehensive bibliography and reliable books on the Partisan Movement. In preparing this research the author conducted int
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Russian military historian Grenkevich synthesizes declassified Soviet documents with previously available sources to describe the anti-Nazi guerrilla movement. As well giving a chronological and thematic account of partisan activities, he discusses the sources, motives, and social characteristics of the movement and its relationship with the Red Army and other security forces in the non-occupied USSR. An introduction and conclusion place the movement in the context of contemporary theories on guerrilla war in general. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)