Mikhail Meltyukhov

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Mikhail Ivanovich Meltyukhov (Russian: Russian: Михаил Иванович Мельтюхов, pronounced [mɪxɐˈil ɪˈvanəvitɕ mɪlʲˈtʲuˈxof]), (born 14 March 1966), is a Russian military historian.

Works[]

Meltyukhov was born in Moscow.

In 1995, he defended the dissertation “Contemporary Historiography on Pre-history of the German-Soviet War”[1] on historiography concerning the beginning of World War II. Since then, he has published several studies, many of which are notable for the critical review of the official Soviet conceptions of World War II. Some important works in this direction are On the Verge of the Great Patriotic War: the Debate Goes on[2] and Stalin's Missed Chance[3][4] and "Soviet-Polish Wars: Military and Political Standoff in 1918-1939".[5]

Meltyukhov also contributed to a recently published collection of articles on Viktor Suvorov's ideas.[6] Meltyukhov supported some ideas of Suvorov in general but criticized him for inaccuracies. In his latest work, Stalin's Liberation Campaign,[7] he deals with Joseph Stalin's attempts to re-gain 'lost territories' of the Russian empire, for example, Bessarabia. He presents a hypothesis that precisely at the time of Soviet occupation of Bessarabia did Adolf Hitler make the decision to invade the Soviet Union, because he realized that Red Army can quickly cut Germany off its oil reserves in Romania by a strike from Bessarabia. This thesis was put forward earlier by Viktor Suvorov who described Soviet preparations for the strike.

An English version of some of his work has been published as "Disputes over 1941" by M I Mel'tiukhov in the series Russian studies in history.[8]

Meltyukhov's Soviet-Polish Wars: Military and Political Confrontation in 1918-1939 was criticized by Polish historian Andrzej Nowak. According to Nowak, Mikhail Meltyukhov interprets Polish-Soviet conflicts as “fragments of eternal Western aggression against Russia.” Russia's (or resp. Soviet Union's) aggressions “are presented as purely defensive postures”, thus presenting Soviet crimes in occupied Poland “as a ‘peacekeeping mission’”[9] In his 2004 book Nowak lists in detail biases and inaccuracies concerning Polish-Russian relations in Meltyukhov's book, primarily pointing out that Poland is always portrayed as an aggressor and many instances of Russian aggression toward Poland are ignored.[9][a]

Meltyukhov's study Stalin's Missed Chance has also been valued positively for covering Soviet military plans before the outbreak of German-Soviet war in 1941, relying on documents that were previously inaccessible.[10] In 2020 Meltyukhov contributed to the Russian Federal archival project. Crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices against the civilian population of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945[11]

Meltyukhov was also a Professor at Moscow Technological University.

References[]

  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. ^ 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).
  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
  7. ^ М. И. Мельтюхов Освободительный поход Сталина. Яуза, Эксмо, 2006. ISBN 5-699-17275-0
  8. ^ Russian studies in history 36, no. 2, (1997) Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., ISSN 1061-1983. OCLC 89401509
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Andrej Nowak, Od imperium do imperium. Spojrzenia na historię Europy Wschodniej, Arcana, Kraków 2004, ISBN 83-89243-81-4, p. 258-271
  10. ^ see e.g. Two Aggressors, a books review in Russian by Genrikh Lyatiyev. Генрих Лятиев. Два агрессора. - «Октябрь» 2001, №11. Online: http://magazines.russ.ru/october/2001/11/l.html. Accessed 23 November 2008.
  11. ^ "«Анатомия зла». Планы, директивы, приказы военно-политического руководства нацистской Германии по оккупации СССР | Преступления нацистов и их пособников против мирного населения СССР в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941–1945 гг". victims.rusarchives.ru. Retrieved 2021-05-13.

Bibliography[]

  • М. И. Мельтюхов, Д. М. Проэктор Блицкриг в Европе, 1939 - 1941. Польша. AST, Terra Fantastica, 2004. ISBN 5-17-018623-1, 5-7921-0416-6
  • Современнная отечественнная историографии предистории Великой Отечественнной войны (1985–1995). Дисссертация. Москва, 1995
  • Канун Великой Отечественнной войны: дискуссия продолжается. Москва, 1995
  • Упущенный шанс Сталина. Советский Союз и борьба за Европу: 1939-1941 (Документы, факты, суждения). - М.: Вече, 2000 ISBN 5-7838-0590-4 (second edition was published in 2004)
  • Освободительный поход Сталина. Яуза, Эксмо, 2006. ISBN 5-699-17275-0
  • 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
  • Великая Отечественная катастрофа. Трагедия 1941 года. 2007. (a collection of articles, authors: Meltyukhov, Solonin, Viktor Suvorov, M.Baryatinsky, Y.Mukhin)

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