Stalin's Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939-1941

Acknowledgments

I wish to express my gratitude for the inestimable cooperation and critical input of a number of people as follows.

Without the support and confidence placed by Ms. Mary Carpenter of Rowman & Littlefield in me and my manuscript, this book would not be in readers’ hands. I am deeply indebted to Ms. Alyona Mossounova in Moscow for her generous work in corralling and reproducing for me numerous Russian journal articles, especially given the small ways in which she selflessly allowed me to “repay” her.

A number of Russian and American scholars and authors helped me in the preparation of this book—either via one-on-one exchanges or indirectly through their own research and their valuable books. Especially helpful in this respect were Yuri Afanasiev, Pavel Bobylev, David M. Glantz, Oleg Kalugin, Mikhail Meltyukhov, Lev Navrozov, Vladimir Nevezhin, Richard C. Pipes, R. C. Raack, Ellsworth Raymond, Harriet F. Scott, and Gerhard L. Weinberg.

Others lent various types of indispensable support, whether logistic, bibliographic, or moral. They include my close friend, Fred Duda; Linda Hunsaker Hardman of the Kimbrough Memorial Library at the Ringling School of Art and Design; Molly Molloy of the Hoover Institution and Thomas Titura.