Малая земля

Trilogy #1

by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

Воспоминания Генерального Секретаря ЦК КПСС, Председателя Президиума Верховного Совета СССР Леонида Ильича Брежнева о войне. Одна из трех книг мемуаров, за которые в 1979 году Леониду Ильичу Брежневу присудили Ленинискую премию по литературе.

Книга «Малая земля» полковника и начальника политотдела 18-й армии Леонида Ильича Брежнева посвящена его воспоминаниям о Великой Отечественной войне.
Рассказывает о фронтовых днях на небольшом участке войны, который солдаты и моряки назвали Малой землёй.
Главный вывод, который сделал Леонид Ильич, пройдя всю войну, это то, что войны быть больше не должно.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Soviet leader Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, instrumental in removing Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev from power in 1964, served as general secretary of the Communist party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1964; the invasions of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan in 1979 evidenced adherence to his doctrine, which, enunciated in 1968, asserted ability to intervene in any country of Warsaw pact in which people threatened the government.

Brezhnev often overshadowed Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin.

From the central committee, he presided over the country until his death. His eighteen-year term ranked as second lengthiest only to that of Joseph Stalin. The expansion of the military during this time of his rule in part caused the dramatic global influence. Some countries in the west condemned his move to support the fragile local Marxist government. People often criticized his tenure as leader for marking the beginning of a period of economic stagnation, overlooking serious problems that eventually led to the dissolution in 1991.

Reviews

[Commander Xell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Очень полезно будет почитать нынешним официальным патриотам. Сам ли писал эту книгу Брежнев, или нет, - неважно. Главное, что он под ней подписался. А значит - думал он именно так:

"И если бы спросили меня сегодня, какой главный вывод сделал я, пройдя войну от первого до последнего дня, я бы ответил: быть ее больше не должно. Быть войны не должно никогда."

[Esko · Rating 2 out of 5]

Malaya Zemlya (Small Land) is the first book of "Brezhnev's trilogy", a series of three books published in 1978-1979 supposedly written by Leonid Brezhnev himself even though it seems to be agreed upon that the books were actually written by ghostwriter(s).

By the descriptions this book seemed to be the most interesting (and the shortest) out of the three so I decided to spend an evening to see what it is about. And it was pretty much exactly what I expected; Soviet propaganda praising communism and communism's role in the victories of the second World War. In short: the book is about Malaya Zemlya, the Small Land, which was a small area near the city of Novorossiysk which the Soviet forces captured back from the Germans in 1943 before the greater Soviet assault on the city. While most of the book was clearly propaganda and the details most likely fictional, there were some stories which COULD have happened. For example about a soldier bringing a cow to the "Small Land" while scavenging for food in a nearby area and that cow becoming a sort of a pet and a booster of morale to the troops stationed in the Small Land. While it might not be completely true it seems harmless to entertain the idea of such an event happening.

I probably won't be reading the other two books in the trilogy but reading this book with the right mindset can at the very least give you an idea of how the second World War (or the Great Patriotic War as described by the book and Soviet sources overall) is portrayed in Soviet literature.

[Yuan Jinquan]

这本书并不是勃总所著，但勃总与作者有过交流，作者也走访过勃总的战友，因此可以当做一本报告文学来看。我通读过八本勃总回忆录，由此对勃总的生平有了大致的了解，其中印象最深刻的就是这本《小地》。小地战斗是一场本身极富英雄主义色彩，却在勃总时期出镜频率过高以致引起人们厌烦的战斗。但无论如何，光荣属于小地保卫者，再多的资产阶级宣传品也改变不了勃总以第十八集团军政治部主任的身份参与过小地战斗的事实。

[Gustavo Marques · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recordações deveras singulares do heroísmo do exército soviético em manter, durante 225 dias de combates encarniçados, a posição numa porção de território cuja área não excedia os 30 km².