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Stalin's secret weapon : the origins of Soviet biological warfare /

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A chilling reassessment of the Soviet Union's advances in biological warfare, and the West's inadvertent contributions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rimmington, Anthony (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Biological warfare > Soviet Union.
Military research > Soviet Union.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • 12. Yesterday Today: Stalin's Legacy and Russia's Current Military Biological Network
  • Notes
  • Index.