The Vlasov case : history of a betrayal / edited by Federal Archival Agency of Russia, the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History.

Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag, [2020]

©2020

2 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles ; 21 cm

A famous Soviet general who fought in the Battle of Moscow (1941/1942) and the siege of Leningrad (1941-1944), Andrey Vlasov (1901-1946) was captured by Nazi troops and then defected to the Third Reich. Supported by Nazi propaganda, he created a "Russian Liberation Committee" that later became the "Russian Liberation Army" (RLA). The RLA was a body of several hundred officers and several thousand troops who had defected from the USSR and served Nazi purposes on Soviet territory. Vlasov was arrested by Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia while trying to escape to the Western Front and was subsequently tried for treason and executed by Soviet authorities.

History of a betrayal

English

June 10, 2021

Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv sot︠s︡ialʹno-politicheskoĭ istorii, editor.