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DougOSU	Question: Russian/Red army memoirs?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 2096 (05/13/09 11:33:53) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I was wondering if anyone knew of good memoirs/war stories written from the Soviet viewpoint regarding their experiences during WWII. We have lots of great stories to humanize the Americans, British, and Germans, but I am not familiar with any accounts written by an average Soviet foot soldier in WWII. I think we tend to see them as faceless masses of cannon fodder, and I would like to read about how they felt about the war they were forced into. Are there any good ones? Translation into English is a must I broke down and bought a dremel. --------------------------------------------------------- My trade list: http://onesixthnet.yuku.com/topic/13533 My trade references: http://onesixthnet.yuku.com/topic/6487
RogueJK		#1	[-]
Posts: 263 (05/13/09 20:55:43) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I enjoyed "A Writer At War" by Vassily Grossman when I read it several years ago. It's the Eastern Front told in small spurts from the viewpoint of an embedded Red Army newspaper reporter.
DougOSU		#2	[-]
Posts: 2102 (05/14/09 08:47:23) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'll check that out, but the problem I think with getting Russian memoirs will be censorship. The good part about German memoirs is there was no Nazi government afterward to censor and whitewash their writings - so the vets could write pretty much whatever they wanted. Even though people say the victors write the history books, this is a case where the victorious Russian soldiers maybe couldn't tell their stories because the government would never let them get out; meanwhile if they lost they could have said whatever they wanted. I broke down and bought a dremel. --------------------------------------------------------- My trade list: http://onesixthnet.yuku.com/topic/13533 My trade references: http://onesixthnet.yuku.com/topic/6487
RogueJK		#3	[-]
Posts: 267 (05/14/09 11:42:20) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Luckily, there are people like Mr. Grossman who kept personal journals and memoirs. These can then be published by an agency outside the Soviet Union, or after the fall of Communism, without fear of government censorship. I'm sure there are plenty of other Red Army personal memoirs out there. Check out this list at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Memoirs/lm/R3PVDI6XBZND8F The Stackpole Military History series also seems to have several, including "Penalty Strike", "T-34 in Action", and "Red Road from Stalingrad". The Stackpole German memoirs are hit or miss, but still interesting. Last Edited By: RogueJK 05/14/09 11:47:25. Edited 1 times.
DougOSU		#4	[-]
Posts: 2105 (05/14/09 11:58:23) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Interesting. I'll definitel check those out. I misunderstood and thought you were saying that the Grossman book was made up of articles he wrote while embedded, which would have most certainly been censored heavily. I broke down and bought a dremel. --------------------------------------------------------- My trade list: http://onesixthnet.yuku.com/topic/13533 My trade references: http://onesixthnet.yuku.com/topic/6487
kar43		#5	[-]
Posts: 1708 (05/14/09 19:22:50) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Here are some more that you might take a look at: *"June 22, 1941" Soviet Historians And The German Invasion -* Vladimir Petrov *800 Days On The Eastern Front: A Soviet Soldier Remembers World War II -* Nikolai Litvin *The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad -* Harrison E. Salisbury *The End Of The Third Reich -* Vasili I. Chuikov *From Stalingrad To Pillau: A Red Army Artillery Officer Remembers The Great Patriotic War -* Isaak Kobylyanskiy *The Great Patriotic War -* Peter G. Tsouras *Harvest Of Despair: Life And Death In Ukraine Under Nazi Rule -* Karel C. Berkhoff *Heroes Of The Soviet Union, 1941-45 -* Henry Sakaida and Christa Hook *Heroines Of The Soviet Union, 1941-45 -* Henry Sakaida and Christa Hook *Hitler Versus Stalin: The Second World War On The Eastern Front In Photographs* - John and Ljubica Erickson *Ilya Ehrenburg - Revolutionary, Novelist, Poet, War Correspondent, Propagandist: The Extraordinary Epic Of A Russian Survivor -* Anatol Goldberg Island Of Fire: The Battle For The Barrikady Gun Factory In Stalingrad November 1942 - February 1943 - Jason D. Mark *Ivan's War: Life And Death In The Red Army 1939-1945 -* Catherine Merridale *The Last Six Months: Russia's Final Battles With Hitler's Armies In World War II -* S.M. Shtemenko *Moscow 1941 - Stalingrad 1942 Recollections Stories Reports -* Vladimir Sevruk *Remembering War A U.S.-Soviet Dialogue -* Helene Keyssar and Vladimir Pozner The Road To Berlin: Continuing The History Of Stalin's War With Germany - John Erickson *The Road To Stalingrad: Stalin's War With Germany Volume I -* John Erickson *Russia At War 1941-1945 -* Alexander Werth *Russia's Heroes 1941-1945* - Albert Axell *The Russian Front 1941-1945 -* Bob Carruthers and John Erickson *The Russian Version Of The Second World War: The History Of The War As Taught To Soviet Schoolchildren -* Graham Lyons *The Siege Of Leningrad 1941-1944: 900 Days Of Terror -* David M. Glantz *The Siege Of Leningrad: Epic Of Survival -* Alan Wykes *Soviet Aces Of World War 2 -* Hugh Morgan *Soviet Air Force In World War II The Official History -* Ray Wagner *Stalin As Military Commander -* Albert Seaton *Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days Of WWII On The Eastern Front -* Constantine Pleshakov *Stalin's Guerillas: Soviet Partisans In World War II -* Kenneth Slepyan *Stalin's Lieutenants: A Study Of Command Under Duress -* William J. Spahr *Stalingrad: How The Red Army Triumphed* - Michael K. Jones *Tank Rider: Into The Reich With The Red Army -* Evgeni Bessonov *Through The Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War On The Eastern Front, 1942-1945 -* Boris Gorbachevsky *The Unknown War -* Harrison E. Salisbury *Voices From Stalingrad* - Jonathan Bastable *Without Vodka: Adventures In Wartime Russia* - Aleksander Topolski *Writer At War: Vasily Grossman With The Red Army 1941-1945* - Anthony Beevor and L. Vinogradova

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