Type de contenu : Texte
Type de médiation : sans médiation
Type de support : Volume
Titre(s) : Stalin's secret weapon : the origins of Soviet biological warfare / Anthony Rimmington
Auteur(s) : Rimmington, Anthony
Publication : London : Hurst, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-262 pages-[16] pages de pl.) : ill. ; 23 cm
ISBN : 1-84904-895-9
  978-1-84904-895-8
EAN : 9781849048958 rel.
Classification décimale Dewey : 358.380 944
Note sur les bibliographies et les index : Notes bibliographiques. Index
Note sur le contenu : 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: Soviety 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
Résumé ou extrait : La jaquette indique : "Stalin’s Secret Weapon is a gripping account of the early history of the globally significant Soviet biological weapons programme, including its key scientists, its secret experimental bases and the role of intelligence specialists, establishing beyond doubt that the infrastructure created by Stalin continues to form the core of Russia’s current biological defence network. Anthony Rimmington has enjoyed privileged access to an array of newly available sources and materials, including declassified British Secret Intelligence Service reports. The evidence contained therein has led him to conclude that the programme, with its network of dedicated facilities and proving grounds, was far more extensive than previously considered, easily outstripping those of the major Western powers. As Rimmington reveals, many of the USSR’s leading infectious disease scientists, including those focused on pneumonic plague, were recruited by the Soviet military and intelligence services. At the dark heart of this bacteriological archipelago lay Stalin, and his involvement is everywhere to be seen, from the promotion of favoured researchers to the political repression and execution of the lead biological warfare specialist, Ivan Mikhailovich Velikanov."
Sujet - Nom commun : Guerre biologique -- URSS -- Histoire
  Recherche militaire -- URSS
  Histoire militaire -- URSS
