Mikhail Meltyukhov

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Mikhail Ivanovich Meltiukhov (also spelled Meltyukhov, Russian: Михаил Иванович Мельтюхов IPA: [mixʌ'il i'vʌnəviʨ mʲil'tʲuxəf]) is a Russian military historian. Currently he is working at Russian Institute of Documents and Historical Records Research. In 1995, he defended the dissertation (“Contemporary Historiography on Pre-history of the Great Patriotic War”^[1] on historiography concerning the beginning of World War II. Since the previous decade, he has published several studies, many of which are notable for the critical review of the official Soviet conceptions of the World War II.

Some important works of the kind are “On the Verge of the Great Patriotic War: the Debate Goes on”^[2] and “Stalin's Missed Chance”^[3][4].

In his latest work, Stalin's Liberation March,^[5] using newly declassified documents, he deals with Stalin's attempts to re-gain 'lost territories' of the Russian empire, e.g Bessarabia. He presents an hypothesis that precisely at the time of occupying Bessarabia did Hitler make the decision to invade the Soviet Union. Meltyukhov also contributed to a recently published collection of articles on Viktor Suvorov's thesis.^[6] Regarding Suvorov's works and criticisms, Meltyukhov has concluded that the critics reject the books by Suvorov, rightly referring to a whole series of errors and inaccuracies by the author, “which, true, do not have the principal value.” (Stalin's Missed Chance)

[edit] Bibliography

1. ^ Современнная отечественнная историографии предистории Великой Отечественнной войны (1985-1995). Дисссертация. Москва, 1995
2. ^ Канун Великой Отечественнной войны: дискуссия продолжается. Москва, 1995
3. ^ Упущенный шанс Сталина. Советский Союз и борьба за Европу: 1939-1941 (Документы, факты, суждения). - М.: Вече, 2000 ISBN 5-7838-0590-4
4. ^ М. И. Мельтюхов Упущенный шанс Сталина: Советский Союз и борьба за Европу 1939-1941 гг. : Документы, факты, суждения. Изд. 2-е, испр. , доп. ISBN 5-7838-1196-3 (second edition)
5. ^ М. И. Мельтюхов Освободительный поход Сталина. Яуза, Эксмо, 2006. ISBN 5-699-17275-0
6. ^ Преддверие Великой Отечественной войны 1939 - 1941 гг.: становление великой державы. in: Правда Виктора Суворова. Переписывая историю Второй Мировой. Яуза, 2006 c. 31-108. ISBN 5-87849-214-8

• М. И. Мельтюхов, Д. М. Проэктор Блицкриг в Европе, 1939 - 1941. Польша. АСТ, Terra Fantastica, 2004. ISBN 5-17-018623-1, 5-7921-0416-6

[edit] External links

• Electronic version of “Stalin's Missed Chance” (in Russian)
• Мельтюхов, Михаил Иванович (Mikhail Mel'tiuhov) (2001). Советско-польские войны. Военно-политическое противостояние 1918—1939 гг. (Soviet-Polish Wars. Politico-Military standoff of 1918-1939). Moscow: Вече (Veche). ISBN 5-699-07637-9.  (in Russian).
• A list of publications by Meltyukhov @ ozon.ru