Stalin and GRU. 1918-1941. Gorbunov E.A.

Stalin, like no other leader, understood and appreciated Soviet intelligence, which by the beginning of the 30s became the best in the world. Thanks to military intelligence, it was possible to prevent the attack on the USSR in 1927 and 1929-1932 of a number of European countries, which were actively provoked on this. Based on the intelligence, Stalin was able to prove to the associates the need for industrialization, which ultimately predetermined the outcome of the Great Patriotic War. The book of the leading historian of Soviet military intelligence, entirely based on previously unknown archival documents, first sheds light on the most secret episodes of the secret war, allowing him to look behind the curtains of great politics, in the holy holy GRU - that military intelligence reported to Stalin, as he reacted to these data What conclusions he made and what measures to strengthen the country's defense capacity took.