MIA: History: Soviet History: Great Patriotic War
The Soviet Partisan Movement
We Are Guerillas (pdf *) (1942 approx.)
An account of the work of Soviet Partisans behind Nazi linesZoya Kosmodemyanskaya [off-site]
Archive of writings, information and images related to the celebrated partisan heroine of the Great Patriotic War
The Resistance in Other Countries
France
"Liberation France is Linked Victory Soviet Union" Maurice Thorez (June 25, 1941)
Paris Has Liberated Itself Maurice Thorez (Broadcast over Radio Moscow, August 24, 1944)
Long Live the Unity of the French Nation Maurice Thorez (Broadcast over Radio Moscow, August 31, 1944)
Interview Maurice Thorez (L’Humanité, February 3, 1945)
Greece
Open Letter of the General Secretary of the KKE Nikos Zachariadis (October 31, 1940)
The KKE had been banned in 1936 by the Metaxas regime. As such, much of the KKE leadership had been imprisoned by the onset of Italian aggression toward Greece. Zachariadis wrote this letter from jail, uring unity with the Metaxas government in efforts of defeating the common enemy of the Greek people.Greek Civil War Subject Section
Yugoslavia
Oath Taken by Fighting Men of Partisan Detachments (1941)
Terror by the Fascist Bandits Josip Broz Tito (September 8, 1941)
The Tasks Before the People's Liberation Partisan Detachments Josip Broz Tito (August 1942)
The First and Foremost Task is the Struggle Against the Invaders Josip Broz Tito (December 1941)
From a Letter to the Provincial Committee for Macedonia Josip Broz Tito (1944)
Tito and his People Howard Fast (January 16, 1943)
“Our Optimism and Faith” Josip Broz Tito (February 4, 1945)
Instructions to General HQ for Macedonia Josip Broz Tito (September 13, 1945)
Survey of the People's Liberation War Colonel Fabijan Trgo (published 1966)
Maps of Yugoslavia from the Partisan Resistance era
Dismemberment of Yugoslavia by Germany, Italy and their allies in April 1941 562 K
Liberated and semi-liberated territory at the end of 1942 438 K
Acknowledgements
* Selected documents provided courtesy of Direct Democracy (Communist) Party, Socialist Truth in Cyprus, and Socialist Party of Cyprus.