Dedication
The page is dedicated to preserving “The Real Stalin” series by the late Dennis “Klo” McKinsey. The author poured a tremendous amount of effort into producing this work. It represents a great contribution to advancing an accurate and objective view of J.V. Stalin, including his contributions to Marxist-Leninist theory, his work and writings, even his personal and political character.
In my opinion, this is the best work on this subject to date.
Richie Brown has added to this collection. Adding his research and notes from newer books in the post 1990s era.
Bourgeois historians had spent a significant amount of falsifying history during the Cold War and a “German bias” was so readily apparent in historiography of that time. Richie Brown has added from newer books where appropriate.
When the first edition of this book was published in 1995, the authors gratefully benefited from the modest first wave of archival materials released by the Russian Federation, which increased our knowledge of the war twofold and enabled us to add substantial Russian context and detail to what had previously been a largely German perspective on the war.
Thanks to those initial releases, the book’s first edition restored a modicum of truth and accuracy to the Soviet side of the war by identifying battles forgotten or concealed for political reasons and by adding more candid detail to the description of battles already well known. Likewise, a clearer understanding of what the Red Army actually achieved tempered the obvious German bias so evident in the historiography on the war during the Cold War years.
However, despite those beneficial releases, yawning gaps still existed in the historical record of the war in 1995, the most vexing of which was the paucity of accurate numbers quantifying the scope and ferocity of the struggle. Now, most of those gaps have been filled, and the missing numbers are becoming readily available. (David M Glantz, When Titans Clashed, p xi)
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