title: Concerning the Reasons for the Defeat of the Western Front during the Initial Stage of the Great Patriotic War
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metadata.value: Komarkov, Aleksandr Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-06-26T21:09:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-06-26T21:09:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.value: Komarkov A. Yu. Concerning the Reasons for the Defeat of the Western Front during the Initial Stage of the Great Patriotic War. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, iss. 2, рp. 409–432.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.205
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/18360
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper looks into the causes of the disaster of the Soviet Western front defeated by Germans
  in the first days of the Great Patriotic war. It is a well-known fact that the beginning of
  the war in June 1941 brought about a shattering defeat of Russia. The situation was most adverse
  in the Western direction where the enemy destroyed the main forces of the first echelon
  of the Red army. Thereby, Wehrmacht not only received an opportunity to capture Belarus
  but also to break out toward Moscow. It is not surprising that these events continue to attract
  the attention of both Russian and foreign historians. Unfortunately, some of them trying to
  determine the prerequisites for the tragedy of June 22 present ambiguous versions. Among
  them, there is a statement about the discrepancy between the realities of war and the preparedness
  and military defense planning of the Soviet army. An illustrative example is the
  article by I. A. Basyuk, Professor from Grodno, “‘Leading troops on the battlefield abandoning
  stupid and harmful linear tactics’: the main reason for the military disaster of 1941 in Belarus”
  published in the magazine “Russian history” in 2015. According to him, the Soviet command
  was unable to learn from the experience of war in Europe and continued to demonstrate its
  commitment to linear tactics neglecting strike groups. It led to the development of plans to
  cover the borders of the USSR with evenly distributed troops along the front with no means to
  counter the offensive of superior enemy forces. But was it really so?
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Patriotic War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Western front
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 1941
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Belorussia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Red Army
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Army Group Centre
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: People’s Commissariat of Defense
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Red Army General Staff
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: military defense planning
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Border battles
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Concerning the Reasons for the Defeat of the Western Front during the Initial Stage of the Great Patriotic War
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metadata.value: Article
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