Title: What Stalin knew : the enigma of Barbarossa /
Authors: Murphy, David E., 1921-
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, Military leadership.; Stalin, Joseph, Military leadership.; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Eastern Front.; Soviet Union Politics and government
Abstract: Murphy asks why the Soviet Union was so unprepared for the German attack in 1941. The highly efficient Soviet intelligence services warned Stalin several times about German preparations, but they were ignored. What led Stalin to make such an enormous blunder?
Contents: Stalin's absolute control, misconceptions, and disastrous decisions -- Stalin versus Hitler : background -- The outspoken general : Ivan Iosifovich Proskurov -- Proskurov sets Stalin straight -- Soviet borders move westward -- The Finns fight : Proskurov made a scapegoat -- Soviet military intelligence residencies in Western Europe -- Soviet military intelligence residencies in Eastern Europe -- Who were you, Dr. Sorge? Stalin never heard of you -- NKVD foreign intelligence -- Fitin's recruited spies -- Listening to the enemy -- Working on the railroad -- The border troops knew -- Proskurov is fired -- Golikov and Operation Sea Lion -- "We do not fire on German aircraft in peacetime" -- German deception : why did Stalin believe it? -- Secret letters -- The purges revived -- On the eve -- A summer of torture -- The final reckoning -- Will the future be a repeat of the past? -- Appendix 1 : Organization and functions of Soviet military intelligence -- Appendix 2 : Hitler's letters to Stalin -- Appendix 3 : Those executed without trial on October 28, 1941 -- Appendix 4 : Chronology of agent reporting -- Glossary of spies and their masters.