03.04.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia)
Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)
Yuriy
RUBTSOV
In not
so distant 2008 Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Ministry of
Defence to prepare for publication the twelve volumes of the treatise titled
The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. The mission is accomplished – the 12th
volume has come out recently. It is a really overarching project and this time
the authors have tried to come up with something new. Unlike the fundamental
works that had been issued in the Soviet Union, the authors carefully avoided
the risk of pertinent descriptions of dispositions and military activities
overshadowing the political, economic, diplomatic, social, spiritual and
everyday life aspects of such a complex phenomenon as the Great Patriotic War.
Practically
all the best specialists of the country were convened to take part in the work.
Around 200 experts in various fields (military and civilian historians,
economists, political scholars and lawyers) from different research institutes
of Academy of Sciences and public organizations, military and civilian
educational institutions (the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery
Sciences, the Academy of Military Science the Russian Academy of Missile and
Artillery Sciences, the Academy of Military Science the Academy of Federal
Security Service of Russian Federation, the General staff college of the
Russian Federation´s armed forces, the Military University of the Ministry of
Defense of Russian Federation, the Moscow State Institute of International
Relations, the Lomonosov Moscow State University, The Combined Arms Academy of
the Armed Forces of the Russian
