Soviet offensive plans controversy (English Wikipedia)

First published in English as Suvorov, Viktor (1990). Icebreaker: Who started the Second World War?. Translated by Beattie, Thomas B. London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 978-0-241-12622-6. Originally published as Suvorov, Viktor (1988). Le brise-glace [The icebreaker] (in French). Translated by Berelowitch, Madeleine; Berelowitch, Wladimir. Olivier Orban. ISBN 978-2-85565-478-2. OCLC 461996651.
Pravda, 14 February 1938, cited in Suvorov, Victor (2001) [1995]. Последняя республика : Почему Советский Союз проиграл Вторую мировую войну? [The last republic: Why did the Soviet Union lose World War II?] (in Russian). Moscow: AST. p. 56. ISBN 978-5-17-001528-3. Окончательная победа социализма в смысле полной гарантии от реставрации буржуазных отношений возможна только в международном масштабе [The final victory of socialism in the sense of a complete guarantee against the restoration of bourgeois relations is possible only on an international scale] Previously published as Suvorov, Victor (1997) [1995]. Последняя республика : Почему Советский Союз проиграл Вторую мировую войну? [The last republic: Why did the Soviet Union lose World War II?] (in Russian). Moscow: AST. pp. 75–76. ISBN 5-12-000367-2. Originally published as Suvorov, Victor (1995). Последняя республика : Почему Советский Союз проиграл Вторую мировую войну? [The last republic: Why did the Soviet Union lose World War II?] (in Russian). Moscow: AST. ISBN 978-5-88196-559-4. OCLC 977844662.
Hoffmann 1995, p. 44. Hoffmann, Joachim (1995). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945 [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941-194] (in German). Munich: Verlag für Wehrwissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-8219-0031-5. Revised and republished as Hoffmann, Joachim (1999). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945: Planung, Ausführung und Dokumentation [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941–1945: Planning, realization, and documentation] (in German). Munich: Herbig. ISBN 978-3-7766-2079-5.
Hoffmann 1995, p. 45. Hoffmann, Joachim (1995). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945 [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941-194] (in German). Munich: Verlag für Wehrwissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-8219-0031-5. Revised and republished as Hoffmann, Joachim (1999). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945: Planung, Ausführung und Dokumentation [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941–1945: Planning, realization, and documentation] (in German). Munich: Herbig. ISBN 978-3-7766-2079-5.
Hoffmann 1995, p. 45-46. Hoffmann, Joachim (1995). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945 [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941-194] (in German). Munich: Verlag für Wehrwissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-8219-0031-5. Revised and republished as Hoffmann, Joachim (1999). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945: Planung, Ausführung und Dokumentation [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941–1945: Planning, realization, and documentation] (in German). Munich: Herbig. ISBN 978-3-7766-2079-5.

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Kershaw, Ian; Lewin, Moshe, eds. (28 April 1997). Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in comparison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-521-56521-9.
Hill, Alexander (2013). "Soviet planning for war, 1928 – June 1941". In Zeiler, Thomas W.; DuBois, Daniel M. (eds.). A companion to World War II. Wiley-Blackwell companions to world history. Vol. 1. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 91–101, at p. 93. doi:10.1002/9781118325018.ch6. ISBN 978-1-4051-9681-9. OCLC 1110330981.
Suvorov, Viktor (2008). The chief culprit: Stalin's grand design to start World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-838-8.
Pipes, Richard (5 August 2003) [2001]. Communism: A history. Modern Library Chronicles. New York: Modern Library. pp. 74–75. ISBN 978-0-8129-6864-4.
Hoffmann 1995, p. 44. Hoffmann, Joachim (1995). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945 [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941-194] (in German). Munich: Verlag für Wehrwissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-8219-0031-5. Revised and republished as Hoffmann, Joachim (1999). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945: Planung, Ausführung und Dokumentation [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941–1945: Planning, realization, and documentation] (in German). Munich: Herbig. ISBN 978-3-7766-2079-5.
Hoffmann 1995, p. 45. Hoffmann, Joachim (1995). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945 [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941-194] (in German). Munich: Verlag für Wehrwissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-8219-0031-5. Revised and republished as Hoffmann, Joachim (1999). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945: Planung, Ausführung und Dokumentation [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941–1945: Planning, realization, and documentation] (in German). Munich: Herbig. ISBN 978-3-7766-2079-5.
Hoffmann 1995, p. 45-46. Hoffmann, Joachim (1995). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945 [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941-194] (in German). Munich: Verlag für Wehrwissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-8219-0031-5. Revised and republished as Hoffmann, Joachim (1999). Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941–1945: Planung, Ausführung und Dokumentation [Stalin's war of extermination, 1941–1945: Planning, realization, and documentation] (in German). Munich: Herbig. ISBN 978-3-7766-2079-5.
Meltyukhov, Mikhail Ivanovich (2000). Упущенный шанс Сталина. Советский Союз и борьба за Европу: 1939–1941 [Stalin's missed chance: The Soviet Union and the struggle for Europe: 1939–1941] (in Russian). Moscow: Veche. Since the Soviet archives were and sometimes are inaccessible, exact figures in some cases have been difficult to ascertain. The official Soviet sources generally overestimated German strength and downplayed Soviet strength, as is emphasized by David Glantz (1998, p. 292). Some of the earlier Soviet figures claimed that there had been only 1,540 Soviet aircraft to face Germany's 4,950 and there were merely 1,800 Red Army AFVs facing Germany's 2,800. In 1991, the Russian military historian Meltyukhov published an article on that question (Meltyukhov, Mikhail Ivanovich (1991). "22 июня 1941 г.: цифры свидетельствуют" [June 22, 1941: What the numbers show]. История СССР (in Russian) (3).), with figures that differed slightly from those of the table here but with similar ratios. Glantz (1998, p. 293) believes that those figures seem "to be most accurate regarding Soviet forces and those of Germany's allies", but other figures also occur in modern publications. Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling colossus: The Red Army on the eve of world war. Modern war studies. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0879-9. Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling colossus: The Red Army on the eve of world war. Modern war studies. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0879-9.
Service, Robert (2004). "The devils sup". Stalin: A biography. London: Pan Books. p. 407. ISBN 978-0-333-72627-3. citing Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., reel no.8, p.1.
Volkogonov, Dmitri (1 May 1999). Autopsy For An Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-0572-6.
Isaev, Alexey Valerievich (2004). Антисуворов : Десять мифов второй мировой [Antisuvorov: Ten myths of World War II] (in Russian). Moscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-07634-5. OCLC 58469496. Also published as Антисуворов : Большая ложь маленького человечка [Against Suvorov: Big lie of a little man]. Война і ми : Военное дело глазами гражданина [War and us: Military affairs through the eyes of a citizen] (in Russian). Moscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. 2004. ISBN 978-5-699-05998-0. OCLC 56195399. Republished as Isaev, Alexey Valerievich (2020). Антисуворов: Cамые Мифы о Великой Отечественной [Against Suvorov: The most myths about the Great Patriotic War] (in Russian). Litres [ru]. ISBN 978-5-04-246828-5.

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Zhukov, Georgy (1941). Соображения Генерального штаба Красной Армии по плану стратегического развертывания Вооруженных Сил Советского Союза на случай войны с Германией и ее союзниками [Considerations of the General Staff of the Red Army on the plan for the strategic deployment of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union in the event of war with Germany and its allies] (Report) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 15 October 2007.. Original document is at the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence. f. 16. Op. 2951. d. 237. l. 1-15.
Considerations on the strategical deployment of Soviet troops in case of war with Germany and its allies (Report). Archived from the original on 29 October 2007.

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Bar-Joseph, Uri; Levy, Jack S. (September 2009). "Conscious Action and Intelligence Failure". Political Science Quarterly. 124 (3): 461–488. doi:10.1002/j.1538-165X.2009.tb00656.x. ISSN 0032-3195.
Uldricks, Teddy J. (Autumn 1999). "The Icebreaker controversy: Did Stalin plan to attack Hitler?". Slavic Review. 58 (3): 626–643. doi:10.2307/2697571. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2697571. S2CID 153701270.
Humpert, David M. (16 March 2005). "Viktor Suvorov and Operation Barbarossa: Tukhachevskii Revisited". The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 18 (1): 59–74. doi:10.1080/13518040590914136. ISSN 1351-8046. S2CID 143411920.
Roberts 1995. Roberts, Cynthia A. (December 1995). "Planning for war: The red army and the catastrophe of 1941". Europe-Asia Studies. 47 (8): 1293–1326. doi:10.1080/09668139508412322. ISSN 0966-8136. JSTOR 153299.
Mawdsley, Evan (2003). "Crossing the Rubicon: Soviet plans for offensive war in 1940–1941". The International History Review. 25 (4): 818–865. doi:10.1080/07075332.2003.9641015. ISSN 0707-5332. S2CID 154940593.
Hill, Alexander (2013). "Soviet planning for war, 1928 – June 1941". In Zeiler, Thomas W.; DuBois, Daniel M. (eds.). A companion to World War II. Wiley-Blackwell companions to world history. Vol. 1. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 91–101, at p. 93. doi:10.1002/9781118325018.ch6. ISBN 978-1-4051-9681-9. OCLC 1110330981.
Edmonds, Robin (October 1990). "Icebreaker: Who started the Second World War?". International Affairs (Book review). 66 (4): 812. doi:10.2307/2620392. ISSN 1468-2346. JSTOR 2620392.
Carley, Michael Jabara (November 2004). "Soviet foreign policy in the West, 1936–1941: A review article". Europe-Asia Studies. 56 (7): 1081–1092. doi:10.1080/1465342042000294374. ISSN 0966-8136. JSTOR 4147498.
Glantz, David M.; Suvorov, Viktor (1991). "Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?". The Journal of Military History. 55 (2): 263–264. doi:10.2307/1985920. JSTOR 1985920.
Watson, Derek (2000). "Comment on Uldricks' Icebreaker controversy". Slavic Review (Letter to the editor). 59 (2): 492–493. doi:10.1017/S0037677900035099. ISSN 0037-6779.
Ragsdale, Hugh; Gorodetsky, Gabriel (2000). "Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia". Slavic Review. 59 (2): 466–467. doi:10.2307/2697094. JSTOR 2697094. S2CID 165139015.
"Book Reviews". Russian Review. 59 (2): 310–311. 2000. doi:10.1111/russ.2000.59.issue-2.
Oldberg, Ingmar (1985). "Review: The USSR. Evil, Strong, and Dangerous? Reviewed work(s):The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine by Andrew Cockburn, Inside the Soviet Army by Viktor Suvorov". Journal of Peace Research. 22 (3): 273–277. doi:10.1177/002234338502200308. JSTOR 423626. S2CID 145391069.

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Kshyk, Christopher J. (2015). "Did Stalin Plan to Attack Hitler in 1941? The Historiographical Controversy Surrounding the Origins of the Nazi-Soviet War". Inquiries Journal. 7 (11).

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Uldricks, Teddy J. (Autumn 1999). "The Icebreaker controversy: Did Stalin plan to attack Hitler?". Slavic Review. 58 (3): 626–643. doi:10.2307/2697571. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2697571. S2CID 153701270.
Roberts 1995. Roberts, Cynthia A. (December 1995). "Planning for war: The red army and the catastrophe of 1941". Europe-Asia Studies. 47 (8): 1293–1326. doi:10.1080/09668139508412322. ISSN 0966-8136. JSTOR 153299.
Edmonds, Robin (October 1990). "Icebreaker: Who started the Second World War?". International Affairs (Book review). 66 (4): 812. doi:10.2307/2620392. ISSN 1468-2346. JSTOR 2620392.
Carley, Michael Jabara (November 2004). "Soviet foreign policy in the West, 1936–1941: A review article". Europe-Asia Studies. 56 (7): 1081–1092. doi:10.1080/1465342042000294374. ISSN 0966-8136. JSTOR 4147498.
Glantz, David M.; Suvorov, Viktor (1991). "Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?". The Journal of Military History. 55 (2): 263–264. doi:10.2307/1985920. JSTOR 1985920.
Ragsdale, Hugh; Gorodetsky, Gabriel (2000). "Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia". Slavic Review. 59 (2): 466–467. doi:10.2307/2697094. JSTOR 2697094. S2CID 165139015.
Oldberg, Ingmar (1985). "Review: The USSR. Evil, Strong, and Dangerous? Reviewed work(s):The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine by Andrew Cockburn, Inside the Soviet Army by Viktor Suvorov". Journal of Peace Research. 22 (3): 273–277. doi:10.1177/002234338502200308. JSTOR 423626. S2CID 145391069.
Brandenberger, David (June 1997). "Гитлеровские тайны на столе у Сталина: Разведка и контрразведка о подготовке германской агрессии против СССР, март-июнь 1941 г. Документы Центрального архива ФСБ" [Hitler's secrets on Stalin's Table: Intelligence and counterintelligence on the preparation of German aggression against the USSR, March-June 1941: Documents from the Central Archive of the FSB]. Europe-Asia Studies (Book review). 49 (4): 748–749. JSTOR 153743.

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Meltyukhov, Mikhail Ivanovich (2000). Упущенный шанс Сталина. Советский Союз и борьба за Европу: 1939–1941 [Stalin's missed chance: The Soviet Union and the struggle for Europe: 1939–1941] (in Russian). Moscow: Veche. Since the Soviet archives were and sometimes are inaccessible, exact figures in some cases have been difficult to ascertain. The official Soviet sources generally overestimated German strength and downplayed Soviet strength, as is emphasized by David Glantz (1998, p. 292). Some of the earlier Soviet figures claimed that there had been only 1,540 Soviet aircraft to face Germany's 4,950 and there were merely 1,800 Red Army AFVs facing Germany's 2,800. In 1991, the Russian military historian Meltyukhov published an article on that question (Meltyukhov, Mikhail Ivanovich (1991). "22 июня 1941 г.: цифры свидетельствуют" [June 22, 1941: What the numbers show]. История СССР (in Russian) (3).), with figures that differed slightly from those of the table here but with similar ratios. Glantz (1998, p. 293) believes that those figures seem "to be most accurate regarding Soviet forces and those of Germany's allies", but other figures also occur in modern publications. Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling colossus: The Red Army on the eve of world war. Modern war studies. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0879-9. Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling colossus: The Red Army on the eve of world war. Modern war studies. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0879-9.
Sokolov, Boris Vadimovich (2000). Неизвестный Жуков: портрет без ретуши в зеркале эпохи [Unknown Zhukov: portrait without retouching in the mirror of the era] (Essay collection) (in Russian). Мн.: Родиола-плюс.
Sokolov, Boris Vadimovich (1999). Правда о Великой Отечественной войне [The truth about the Great Patriotic War] (Essay collection) (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Aletheia.
Sokolov, Boris Vadimovich (1999). "Собирался ли Сталин напасть на Гитлера?" [Was Stalin going to attack Hitler?]. Правда о Великой Отечественной войне [The truth about the Great Patriotic War] (Essay collection) (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Aletheia. Retrieved 26 April 2011.

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McMeekin, Sean (9 May 2021). "Stalin's Gambit – Did the Soviets Plan for a 1941 Offensive War Against Nazi Germany?". Military History Now.

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Carley, Michael Jabara (November 2004). "Soviet foreign policy in the West, 1936–1941: A review article". Europe-Asia Studies. 56 (7): 1081–1092. doi:10.1080/1465342042000294374. ISSN 0966-8136. JSTOR 4147498.

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Uldricks, Teddy J. (Autumn 1999). "The Icebreaker controversy: Did Stalin plan to attack Hitler?". Slavic Review. 58 (3): 626–643. doi:10.2307/2697571. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2697571. S2CID 153701270.
Humpert, David M. (16 March 2005). "Viktor Suvorov and Operation Barbarossa: Tukhachevskii Revisited". The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 18 (1): 59–74. doi:10.1080/13518040590914136. ISSN 1351-8046. S2CID 143411920.
Mawdsley, Evan (2003). "Crossing the Rubicon: Soviet plans for offensive war in 1940–1941". The International History Review. 25 (4): 818–865. doi:10.1080/07075332.2003.9641015. ISSN 0707-5332. S2CID 154940593.
Ragsdale, Hugh; Gorodetsky, Gabriel (2000). "Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia". Slavic Review. 59 (2): 466–467. doi:10.2307/2697094. JSTOR 2697094. S2CID 165139015.
Oldberg, Ingmar (1985). "Review: The USSR. Evil, Strong, and Dangerous? Reviewed work(s):The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine by Andrew Cockburn, Inside the Soviet Army by Viktor Suvorov". Journal of Peace Research. 22 (3): 273–277. doi:10.1177/002234338502200308. JSTOR 423626. S2CID 145391069.

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Solonin, Mark (30 May 2011). "Comrade Stalin's three plans". Mark Solonin's personal website. Archived from the original on 14 June 2011.
Solonin, Mark Semenovič (2008). 23 czerwca: Dzień 'M' [June 23: M-day] (in Polish). Translated by Redlich, Jerzy (1st ed.). Poznań, Poland: Dom Wydawniczy Rebis. p. 204. ISBN 978-83-7510-257-4. OCLC 709913447. Translation of original Solonin, Mark Semenovič (June 2007). 23 июня: "день М" [June 23: M-day] (in Russian) (1st ed.). Moscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-22304-6. OCLC 219421628. The table is available online on Mark Solonin's website

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Zhukov, Georgy (1941). Соображения Генерального штаба Красной Армии по плану стратегического развертывания Вооруженных Сил Советского Союза на случай войны с Германией и ее союзниками [Considerations of the General Staff of the Red Army on the plan for the strategic deployment of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union in the event of war with Germany and its allies] (Report) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 15 October 2007.. Original document is at the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence. f. 16. Op. 2951. d. 237. l. 1-15.
Solonin, Mark Semenovich (April 2004). Бочка и обручи, или когда началась Великая отечественная война [Barrel and hoops: When the Great Patriotic war really started] (in Russian). Drohobych, Ukraine: Vidrodzhennya [uk]. ISBN 978-966-538-147-1. OCLC 56985531. Excerpts
Considerations on the strategical deployment of Soviet troops in case of war with Germany and its allies (Report). Archived from the original on 29 October 2007.
Solonin, Mark (30 May 2011). "Comrade Stalin's three plans". Mark Solonin's personal website. Archived from the original on 14 June 2011.

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Isaev, Alexey Valerievich (2004). Антисуворов : Десять мифов второй мировой [Antisuvorov: Ten myths of World War II] (in Russian). Moscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-07634-5. OCLC 58469496. Also published as Антисуворов : Большая ложь маленького человечка [Against Suvorov: Big lie of a little man]. Война і ми : Военное дело глазами гражданина [War and us: Military affairs through the eyes of a citizen] (in Russian). Moscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. 2004. ISBN 978-5-699-05998-0. OCLC 56195399. Republished as Isaev, Alexey Valerievich (2020). Антисуворов: Cамые Мифы о Великой Отечественной [Against Suvorov: The most myths about the Great Patriotic War] (in Russian). Litres [ru]. ISBN 978-5-04-246828-5.
Isaev, Alexey Valerievich (2007). Вертикальный охват // Неправда Виктора Суворова [Vertical coverage: The lie of Viktor Suvorov]. Мoscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. pp. 257–289.
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Solonin, Mark Semenovich (January 2005). Двадцать второе июня, или, Когда началась Великая Отечественная война [The 22nd of June: When the Great Patriotic war really started] (in Russian). Moscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-08704-4. OCLC 60493559.
Solonin, Mark Semenovič (2008). 23 czerwca: Dzień 'M' [June 23: M-day] (in Polish). Translated by Redlich, Jerzy (1st ed.). Poznań, Poland: Dom Wydawniczy Rebis. p. 204. ISBN 978-83-7510-257-4. OCLC 709913447. Translation of original Solonin, Mark Semenovič (June 2007). 23 июня: "день М" [June 23: M-day] (in Russian) (1st ed.). Moscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-22304-6. OCLC 219421628. The table is available online on Mark Solonin's website

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Solonin, Mark Semenovich (April 2004). Бочка и обручи, или когда началась Великая отечественная война [Barrel and hoops: When the Great Patriotic war really started] (in Russian). Drohobych, Ukraine: Vidrodzhennya [uk]. ISBN 978-966-538-147-1. OCLC 56985531. Excerpts

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Bar-Joseph, Uri; Levy, Jack S. (September 2009). "Conscious Action and Intelligence Failure". Political Science Quarterly. 124 (3): 461–488. doi:10.1002/j.1538-165X.2009.tb00656.x. ISSN 0032-3195.
Uldricks, Teddy J. (Autumn 1999). "The Icebreaker controversy: Did Stalin plan to attack Hitler?". Slavic Review. 58 (3): 626–643. doi:10.2307/2697571. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2697571. S2CID 153701270.
Smelser, Ronald; Davies, Edward J. (5 November 2007). The myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American popular culture (Paperback ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-71231-6. OCLC 123912635.
Humpert, David M. (16 March 2005). "Viktor Suvorov and Operation Barbarossa: Tukhachevskii Revisited". The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 18 (1): 59–74. doi:10.1080/13518040590914136. ISSN 1351-8046. S2CID 143411920.
Roberts 1995. Roberts, Cynthia A. (December 1995). "Planning for war: The red army and the catastrophe of 1941". Europe-Asia Studies. 47 (8): 1293–1326. doi:10.1080/09668139508412322. ISSN 0966-8136. JSTOR 153299.
Mawdsley, Evan (2003). "Crossing the Rubicon: Soviet plans for offensive war in 1940–1941". The International History Review. 25 (4): 818–865. doi:10.1080/07075332.2003.9641015. ISSN 0707-5332. S2CID 154940593.
Hill, Alexander (2013). "Soviet planning for war, 1928 – June 1941". In Zeiler, Thomas W.; DuBois, Daniel M. (eds.). A companion to World War II. Wiley-Blackwell companions to world history. Vol. 1. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 91–101, at p. 93. doi:10.1002/9781118325018.ch6. ISBN 978-1-4051-9681-9. OCLC 1110330981.
First published in English as Suvorov, Viktor (1990). Icebreaker: Who started the Second World War?. Translated by Beattie, Thomas B. London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 978-0-241-12622-6. Originally published as Suvorov, Viktor (1988). Le brise-glace [The icebreaker] (in French). Translated by Berelowitch, Madeleine; Berelowitch, Wladimir. Olivier Orban. ISBN 978-2-85565-478-2. OCLC 461996651.
Pravda, 14 February 1938, cited in Suvorov, Victor (2001) [1995]. Последняя республика : Почему Советский Союз проиграл Вторую мировую войну? [The last republic: Why did the Soviet Union lose World War II?] (in Russian). Moscow: AST. p. 56. ISBN 978-5-17-001528-3. Окончательная победа социализма в смысле полной гарантии от реставрации буржуазных отношений возможна только в международном масштабе [The final victory of socialism in the sense of a complete guarantee against the restoration of bourgeois relations is possible only on an international scale] Previously published as Suvorov, Victor (1997) [1995]. Последняя республика : Почему Советский Союз проиграл Вторую мировую войну? [The last republic: Why did the Soviet Union lose World War II?] (in Russian). Moscow: AST. pp. 75–76. ISBN 5-12-000367-2. Originally published as Suvorov, Victor (1995). Последняя республика : Почему Советский Союз проиграл Вторую мировую войну? [The last republic: Why did the Soviet Union lose World War II?] (in Russian). Moscow: AST. ISBN 978-5-88196-559-4. OCLC 977844662.
Bellamy 2007, p. 115. Bellamy, Chris (2007). Absolute war: Soviet Russia in World War Two. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-41086-4. OCLC 154678367.
Edmonds, Robin (October 1990). "Icebreaker: Who started the Second World War?". International Affairs (Book review). 66 (4): 812. doi:10.2307/2620392. ISSN 1468-2346. JSTOR 2620392.
Carley, Michael Jabara (November 2004). "Soviet foreign policy in the West, 1936–1941: A review article". Europe-Asia Studies. 56 (7): 1081–1092. doi:10.1080/1465342042000294374. ISSN 0966-8136. JSTOR 4147498.
Isaev, Alexey Valerievich (2004). Антисуворов : Десять мифов второй мировой [Antisuvorov: Ten myths of World War II] (in Russian). Moscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-07634-5. OCLC 58469496. Also published as Антисуворов : Большая ложь маленького человечка [Against Suvorov: Big lie of a little man]. Война і ми : Военное дело глазами гражданина [War and us: Military affairs through the eyes of a citizen] (in Russian). Moscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. 2004. ISBN 978-5-699-05998-0. OCLC 56195399. Republished as Isaev, Alexey Valerievich (2020). Антисуворов: Cамые Мифы о Великой Отечественной [Against Suvorov: The most myths about the Great Patriotic War] (in Russian). Litres [ru]. ISBN 978-5-04-246828-5.
Watson, Derek (2000). "Comment on Uldricks' Icebreaker controversy". Slavic Review (Letter to the editor). 59 (2): 492–493. doi:10.1017/S0037677900035099. ISSN 0037-6779.
Beevor 2012, p. 188. Beevor, Antony (5 June 2012). The Second World War. New York: Little Brown & Company. ISBN 978-0-316-02374-0. OCLC 764372841.
Solonin, Mark Semenovich (April 2004). Бочка и обручи, или когда началась Великая отечественная война [Barrel and hoops: When the Great Patriotic war really started] (in Russian). Drohobych, Ukraine: Vidrodzhennya [uk]. ISBN 978-966-538-147-1. OCLC 56985531. Excerpts
Solonin, Mark Semenovich (January 2005). Двадцать второе июня, или, Когда началась Великая Отечественная война [The 22nd of June: When the Great Patriotic war really started] (in Russian). Moscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-08704-4. OCLC 60493559.
Solonin, Mark Semenovič (2008). 23 czerwca: Dzień 'M' [June 23: M-day] (in Polish). Translated by Redlich, Jerzy (1st ed.). Poznań, Poland: Dom Wydawniczy Rebis. p. 204. ISBN 978-83-7510-257-4. OCLC 709913447. Translation of original Solonin, Mark Semenovič (June 2007). 23 июня: "день М" [June 23: M-day] (in Russian) (1st ed.). Moscow: Yauza [ru], Eksmo. ISBN 978-5-699-22304-6. OCLC 219421628. The table is available online on Mark Solonin's website
Koivisto, Mauno (2001). Venäjän idea [The idea of Russia] (in Finnish). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 978-951-31-2108-2. OCLC 49381204. Translated into English as The Russian idea. Translated by Binham, Timothy. Helsinki: Tammi. 2023. ISBN 978-952-04-5802-7. OCLC 1428738775. Quote is from the 2001 Finnish edition and translated by Wikipedia editors, not the 2023 English edition.