BOOK REVIEW: I.V. BYSTROVA. LEND-LEASE FOR THE USSR: ECONOMY, TECHNIC, PEOPLE. MOSCOW: KUCHKOVO POLE, 2019. 480 p.
K.V. Minkova
Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Keywords: Lend-Lease, USSR, USA, Government Purchasing Commission
Abstract
The book under review is devoted to a significant page in the Great Patriotic War history - the Lend-Lease assistance program for the allies. The review notes the importance of introducing into the Russian scientific circulation the documents of the Government Purchasing Commission (GPC) deposited in the Russian State Archive of Economics, and thoroughly studied by the monograph’s author. The analysis of internal structural contradictions in the US government, which played an important role in delaying the implementation of the Lend-Lease program, is also of undoubted importance. The description of GPC actions in May 1945, after a sudden suspension of supplies to the USSR from the United States, closes a lacuna that has still remained in the Lend-Lease national historiography.
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