THE TRUTH OF VICTOR SUVOR.
ПРАВДА ВИКТОРА СУВОРОВА.
Red. D. Khmelnitsky.
Moscow, Jauza 2007. 349 p.
ISBN 978-5-903339-32-7
A collection of thirteen essays by eleven Russian historians, prefaced by a special foreword by the editor and an introductory essay by Viktor Suvorov (So-called Military Science in the Soviet Manner). Among the authors are successful Russian publicists on the subject (Mikhail Meltyukhov, Vladimir Nevezhin) and persons as yet unknown. The book is a response to the sometimes ideological rather than factual rejection of Viktor Suvorov's interpretive conclusions, but it suffers from a certain thematic and factual imbalance. Better are the essays that seek to develop Suvorov's imposed interpretations through their own scholarly research, and in these cases the text is supplemented by extensive annotation. The "defenders of Suvorov", on the other hand, are closer to the "opponents of Suvorov", as they too are close to the politicising historiography they themselves criticise. The whole book, however, is clear evidence of the vitality of Suvorov's theories in Russian military historiography and of the attempt to take a "new" (sometimes unnecessarily "new") look at the history of the Soviet-German war.
ПРАВДА ВИКТОРА СУВОРОВА.
Red. D. Khmelnitsky.
Moscow, Jauza 2007. 349 p.
ISBN 978-5-903339-32-7
A collection of thirteen essays by eleven Russian historians, prefaced by a special foreword by the editor and an introductory essay by Viktor Suvorov (So-called Military Science in the Soviet Manner). Among the authors are successful Russian publicists on the subject (Mikhail Meltyukhov, Vladimir Nevezhin) and persons as yet unknown. The book is a response to the sometimes ideological rather than factual rejection of Viktor Suvorov's interpretive conclusions, but it suffers from a certain thematic and factual imbalance. Better are the essays that seek to develop Suvorov's imposed interpretations through their own scholarly research, and in these cases the text is supplemented by extensive annotation. The "defenders of Suvorov", on the other hand, are closer to the "opponents of Suvorov", as they too are close to the politicising historiography they themselves criticise. The whole book, however, is clear evidence of the vitality of Suvorov's theories in Russian military historiography and of the attempt to take a "new" (sometimes unnecessarily "new") look at the history of the Soviet-German war.