This is a
major, unprecedented study of the Soviet partisan movements' intelligence
activity in 1941-1945, and its impact on the outcome of the war between the
Soviet Union and Nazi
Germany. It contributes significantly to the understanding of the Soviet
intelligence culture and practice during WWII, as well as to the study of the
Holocaust, which is provided with clear well-documented evidence of the Soviet
leadership's knowledge about the extermination of the local Jews by the Nazis
and their supporters.
"Forest Spies: The Intelligence Activity of the Soviet Partisans 1941-1945 is a
thoughtful, wide-ranging, and politically unbiased study, based on the author’s analysis of archival documents, of an extremely important element of the Second World
War: the Soviet partisan movement." - Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXXII, Samuel Barnai, May 2021
RTVI, an interview with Dr. Yaacov Falkov, laureate of the 2020 Historical Society Am VeOlam Prize, May 2021 (39:30) (Russian)