“Extraordinary war.” Small War in the Smolensk province in 1812

The new study of A.I. Popov is devoted to the two topics in the scientific and fiction of the topics: the people’s and partisan war in 1812 in the Smolensk province. By the efforts of Soviet writers, these two different concepts merged into a certain Abracadabra: “People’s Partisan Movement.” However, the distortion of these concepts originated much earlier, a few decades after the end of the war, so in the end in 150 years a large number of cliches, distortions, absurdities, fantasies, and even a frank lies about the “people’s partisan war” have accumulated in the literature. It’s time to understand this poorlam, call a spade a spade and discard numerous fabrications. For a successful solution to this difficult task, the author turned, first of all, to the Russian primary sources, also attracted foreign sources, completely unknown to domestic historians, to give more objectivity to their study. The author has no doubt that many Russian readers are educated …

Publisher
, 2013