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Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945

Overy, Richard

How did the Soviet Union beat Germany, and what did the war cost its own people under a regime that also turned terror on them?

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12 parts, about 29 minutes to read.

At a glance

Author
Overy, Richard
Parts
12 parts
Reading time
about 29 minutes

Why read it

  • You will see why the Soviet war effort mattered so much in defeating Germany, and why historians still argue about how it was achieved
  • You will stop treating a victory story as only a military story, because terror inside the country was part of the war
  • You will learn to question a leader's public myth by comparing it with what the record shows about his mistakes

Who it is for

  • Someone who only knows the Western version of the Second World War
  • A student of Stalin's rule who wants the wartime side
  • Someone curious how a country survived near collapse and kept fighting

What the summary covers

  1. Introduction1 min
  2. 1. The Darkness Descends: 1919–19372 min
  3. 2. The Hour Before Midnight: 1937–19412 min
  4. 3. The Goths Ride East: Barbarossa, 19412 min
  5. 4. Between Life and Death: Leningrad and Moscow2 min
  6. 5. The Fight from Within: Collaboration, Terror and Resistance2 min
  7. 6. The Cauldron Boils: Stalingrad, 1942–432 min
  8. 7. The Citadel: Kursk, 19433 min
  9. 8. False Dawn: 1943–444 min
  10. 9. Fall of the Swastika: 19454 min
  11. 10. The Cult of Personality: Stalin and the Legacy of War3 min
  12. Epilogue: Russia's War: Myth and Reality2 min

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