The Russian Version of the Second World War: The History of the War As Taught to Soviet Schoolchildren (English and Russian Edition)

by Jennifer Coburn

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871961369
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Facts on File
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An eye-opener

This book is a middle school history book. As such, it's simplistic and abridged, just as our own middle school history books are. That said, I learned a great deal about World War II I never knew before, and even more about how the actions of the US played to non American people. I only read one thing in this book I considered and out and out lie (the Soviets were in fact "Liberating" those Polish people they attacked). I did read a lot of history interpurted differently than I had been taught, in ways not so flattering to my country, and not necessarily incorrectly (Did we delay invasion of Europe to weaken the Soviet Union? I can't swear that isn't true). Also oddly enough, the book makes a great distinction between the actions of the US government and the morals of it's people, perhaps they do overestimate the "Noble workers yearning to be free as their Soviet brothers" a bit, but it seems to give the people the benifit of the doubt. All in all, a very interesting read.