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Author(s): Anthony Rimmington

ISBN(s): 9780190928858, 0190928859

Edition: Hardcover

File Details: PDF, 1.39 MB

Year: 2018

Language: English

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190928859
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190928858
Author: Anthony Rimmington

Stalin’s Secret Weapon is a gripping account of the early history of the globally significant Soviet biological weapons program, 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 defense 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 program, 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 favored researchers to the political repression and execution of the lead biological warfare specialist, Ivan Mikhailovich Velikanov.

Table of contents:

1. Origins: The Launch of the Moscow Strand of the Red Army’s Offensive Biological Warfare Programme

2. The Creation of a BW Prison Laboratory: The Bacteriological Convent

3. From Defence to Offence: The Development of the Red Army’s Biological Warfare Facilities at Vlasikha

4. The Soviet Union’s Secret of Secrets: The Creation of BW Facilities on the Island of Gorodomyla

5. The Rise and Fall of a Working-Class Hero: Ivan Mikhailovich Velikanov, Lead Scientist of the Soviet Union’s Offensive BW Programme

6. From Shikhany to Vozrozhdenie Island: The Selection of Open-Air Proving Grounds for the Soviet Offensive BW Programme

7. The Soviet Union’s Enigma BW Programme: Military Biological Research in Leningrad

8. From Flanders to Glanders: Soviet Military-Veterinary BW Programmes

9. On the Brink of Bacteriological War: Stalin’s BW Programme and the Second World War

10. Stalin’s BW Archipelago: Mapping-Out a New Post-War BW Network

11. From Swords to Ploughshares: The Scientific and Industrial Achievements of Stalin’s BW Archipelago