Stalin's secret weapon : the origins of Soviet biological warfare /

A chilling reassessment of the Soviet Union's advances in biological warfare, and the West's inadvertent contributions.

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Main Author: Rimmington, Anthony (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Origins: The Launch of the Moscow Strand of the Red Army's Offensive Biological Warfare Programme
  • The Creation of a BW Prison Laboratory: The Bacteriological Convent
  • From Defence to Offence: The Development of the Red Army's Biological Warfare Facilities at Vlasikha
  • The Soviet Union's Secret of Secrets: The Creation of BW Facilities on the Island of Gorodomyla
  • The Rise and Fall of a Working-Class Hero: Ivan Mikhailovich Velikanov, Lead Scientist of the Soviet Union's Offensive BW Programme
  • From Shikhany to Vozrozhdenie Island: The Selection of Open-Air Proving Grounds for the Soviet Offensive BW Programme
  • The Soviet Union's Enigma BW Programme: Military Biological Research in Leningrad
  • From Flanders to Glanders: Soviet Military-Veterinary BW Programmes
  • On the Brink of Bacteriological War: Stalin's BW Programme and the Second World War
  • Stalin's BW Archipelago: Mapping-Out a New Post-War BW Network
  • From Swords to Ploughshares: The Scientific and Industrial Achievements of Stalin's BW Archipelago
  • Yesterday Today: Stalin's Legacy and Russia's Current Military Biological Network.