scholarly journals On the issue of formation of the new periodisation of the USSR vs Axis part of World War II: experience of solving the problem

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Alexander I. Ladyga
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
World War ◽  
Combat Experience ◽  
Armed Struggle ◽  
War Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Schools ◽  
The World ◽  
Resistance Movement

The article reviews the process of formation and improvement of hypotheses of periodization in the Soviet and Russian historiography of the USSR war against the Axis, the key provisions of these hypotheses are given and revealed. Taking into account the comments of military experts of the past years, the author proposed a periodisation, where the criteria for the division of the war into periods include: changing the war activities ways – the determining criteria; the war activities conditions (the nature of war, coalitions creation or split, changes in the international and internal situation of the warring countries, etc.); organisation, training, combat experience, armed forces (and others) and their influence on the combat capabilities of the army; the level of the struggle of peoples against the occupation, the development of the Resistance movement (including Germany); the evolution of the war economy of the warring countries and its influence on the armed struggle. In the author's periodisation, the periods are divided into stages, taking into account the conditions, features and specifics of war activities. The features and trends of history description at different stages of the evolution of scientific knowledge are identified and the main scientific schools and institutions that studied the periodisation of the World War II East Front are named.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF USING THE EXPERIENCE OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE FOR STATEHOOD, 1918-1919, IN THE CREATION OF UKRAINIAN NATIONAL SELF-DEFENSE, 1943

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 32-40
Author(s):  
Ihor DROHOBYTSKYI
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
World War ◽  
Armed Struggle ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Regular Army ◽  
Resistance Movement

The article covers some aspects of the use of military experience of Ukrainian armed groups of the period of the national liberation struggle 1917–1921 by the members of the nationalist wing of the national resistance movement during World War II. Much attention is given to measures aimed at the development of tactical units of the structure of the Ukrainian People's Self-Defense (Ukrainska Narodna Samooborona; UNS) in the second half of 1943 in Galicia. These facts are analyzed in the context of the development of a national army concept among leaders of Ukrainian nationalists at the various stages of the Nazi-Soviet war (1941–1945). The main stages of their vision evolution of the development process of the domestic armed forces are outlined. The author highlights the reasons and the factors of shifting focus from the idea of creating a regular army to the idea of deploying a partisan form of struggle against the occupation regimes, characterized the role of the armed forces in the implementation of the idea of national statehood. The specifics of the ideological motive of the armed struggle are revealed with emphasis on the tradition of struggle for the nation's interest. The paper also concentrates on external and internal preconditions for expanding the geography of armed resistance to the occupiers, regional specifics in the processes of deployment of military structures run by the nationalist wing of the Ukrainian resistance movement. Keywords tradition, statehood, armed forces, resistance, nationalism.

Analogies at War

2005 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. CHRISTOPHER JESPERSEN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
American History ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Events

The frequent use of the Vietnam analogy to describe the situation in Iraq underscores the continuing relevance of Vietnam for American history. At the same time, the Vietnam analogy reinforces the tendency to see current events within the context of the past. Politicians and pundits latch onto analogies as handles for understanding the present, but in so doing, they obscure more complicated situations. The con�ict in Iraq is not Vietnam, Korea, or World War II, but this article considers all three in an effort to see how the past has shaped, and continues to affect, the world the United States now faces.

Rolling Thunder and Linebacker Campaigns: The North Vietnamese View

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 197-230
Author(s):  
Merle L. Pribbenow
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Combat Experience ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Desert Storm ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
North Vietnam ◽  
Iraqi Freedom

AbstractNorth Vietnam has the dubious distinction of having more combat experience against U.S. air power than any other nation in the world. Rolling Thunder, the first U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam (1965–68), lasted longer than U.S. air operations in Europe during World War II. When one adds the 1972 Linebacker air campaign against North Vietnam and the almost nine-year bombing campaign against the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, only Iraq, with the air campaigns of Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom book-ending a twelve-year (1991–2003), low-intensity confrontation against U.S. aircraft over the no fly zones, faced U.S. air attacks longer. The air battles over Iraq, however, cannot be compared with the battles fought in the skies over North Vietnam. During the course of the war, more than 1,100 U.S. fixed wing aircraft were lost in combat operations.

The World within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II

1999 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 948
Author(s):  
Michael C. C. Adams ◽  
Gerald F. Linderman ◽  
Peter Schrijvers
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Combat Experience ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Statistics in Serbia

2004 ◽  
pp. 225-252
Author(s):  
Miodrag Nikolic
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Development ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Preparatory Period ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Types Of Information

From 1804 and the liberation from the foreign rule, Serbia tried to build a state of the European type. These efforts are indicated by the creation of numerous institutions which include statistics, too. Statistics offers testimonies about states and societies, representing them to the domestic and world public. It does so by collecting data about the territory and population, economy and culture of a country. The collected data are processed and published. Thus the politicians, scientists, businessmen and broad public acquire insights useful for the implementation of their activities and for a better understanding of the environment in which they work. Even before The First Serbian Uprising there were state institutions in the territory of the then Serbia. For the needs of that administration certain counts were made. But it was the work of foreign empires. Only the statistics created for the needs of Serbia?s own Principality, later Kingdom belongs to the history of Serbian statehood. That is why the national uprising begun in 1804 marks its justified historical start, and World War II was a logical moment for the end of this review. Understanding the development of the statistic service requires at least two types of information. First, it is useful to bear in mind those factors of social development which imposed the need for statistics in Serbia. The second set of remarks is related to the fact that Serbia at the time took the example of the statistical services in the more developed part of the world. Remarks about the stimuli from these two sources given in this text are only a reminder of the obligation to carry out still unfinished essential studies of the past. There were statistic reaserches in Serbia even before the foundation of the statistics service. Everything done in this area before 1862 belongs to the pioneering attempts, to the preparatory period, to prehistory. However, precisely these first endeavours clearly reveal governmental reasons for which statistics was created. That is why the statistics endeavours even before the establishment of the state statistics service also deserve attention.

scholarly journals The Winter War: Preparation and Technology of War

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 5052-5055
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Russian History ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The World ◽  
Armed Violence ◽  
Winter War

The theme of the World War II held in the period of 1941-1945 never loses its relevance because the threat of armed violence and military aggression in present days is too great. Therefore, the historical experience should become the property of the younger generation, so it does not repeat the mistakes of the past. Without speaking against the pluralism of scientific approaches and assessments in the study of the past in general, it is impossible to agree with the bias in the description of historical processes that take place today in Russian history. With the coming to power of the new political forces, many historical events concerning the past of the country are rethought, there is a rewriting of historical facts in favor of politicians, to justify their actions

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