The Great Patriotic War. Tutorial

The book covers the history of the USSR on the eve and during the Great Patriotic War. The events of wartime are presented from the first hours of the war and according to the main historical stages: the initial period, the year of the radical fracture in the war, the victorious stage. A large place is reserved for the events on the eve of the war - the modernization of the economy during the third five -year plan, the struggle in the international arena for the prevention of war, patriotic preparation of the population for the defense of the Fatherland, and the prevention of the fifth column in the war. The book is proposed as a manual in higher and secondary educational institutions. It is recommended for all the Russian recent history