Vlasov Case: History of a Betrayal

Volume 2: 1945-1946

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• Publisher: ibidem
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9783838274409
• Edition: 0

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 "e;Russian Liberation Committee"e; that later became the "e;Russian Liberation Army"e; (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. In 2015, the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) released three volumes of archives documenting the infamous "e;Vlasov Case, "e; the main instance of Soviet collaborationism with Nazi Germany. With this volume, which draws on the archives of Russia, Belarus, Germany, and the US, the English-speaking audience can now access the most important documents on this topic for the first time. The documents tell the story of Vlasov's betrayal, from the moment he became a prisoner, to his service under the Nazis, and up through the trial in Moscow in 1946. Volume 1 is comprised of archival documents on Vlasov's activities from 1942 to 1945. Volume 2 explores the Soviet investigations of Vlasov during the 1945-1946 trial.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• 1. Transcripts of the interrogations of A. A. Vlasov and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• N° 1.2. Transcript of the interrogation of Vlasov A. A.
• N° 1.3. Stenographic transcript of the face-to-face confrontation between the arrested parties A. A. Vlasov and D. Ye. Zakutny.
• N° 1.4. Transcript of the face-to-face confrontation between the arrested parties A. A. Vlasov and G. A. Zhilenkov.
• 2. Transcripts of the interrogations of G. A. Zverev and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• N° 2.2. Transcript of the interrogation of G. A. Zverev.
• 3. Transcripts of the interrogations of S. K. Bunyachenko and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• 4. Transcripts of the interrogations of F. I. Trukhin and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• N° 4.2. Transcript of the interrogation of F. I. Trukhin.
• 5. Transcripts of the interrogations of I. A. Blagoveschensky and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• 6. Transcripts of the interrogations of D. Ye. Zakutny and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• N° 6.2. Transcript of the interrogation of D. Ye. Zakutny.
• 7. Transcripts of the interrogations of V. I. Maltsev and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• 8. Transcripts of the interrogations of N. S. Shatov and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• 9. Transcripts of the interrogations of V. D. Korbukov and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• 10. Transcripts of the interrogations of M.A. Meandrov and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• 11. Transcripts of the interrogations of V. F. Malyshkin and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• 12. Transcripts of the interrogations of G. N. Zhilenkov and other investigative documents pertaining to his case
• 13. Concluding documents on the investigation of A. A. Vlasov
• N° 13.2. Memorandum from V. S. Abakumov, V. V. Ulrich, and I. A. Vavilov to I. V. Stalin with a proposal to conduct a closed trial of the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR in the case of A. A. Vlasov and his active supporters.
• N° 13.3. Excerpt from transcript No. 52 of the session of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on the trial of the CLPR leadership.
• N° 13.4. Sentence of the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR in the case of A. A. Vlasov and other active participants in CLPR and the RLA.
• N° 13.5. Certificate of Sentencing of the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR from 1 August, 1946, regarding the leaders of the RLA and CLPR sentenced to capital punishment.