TY - JOUR AU - Miner, StevenMerrgtt AB - coming from within the U S S R at such a late stage o f the war. W h e n parallels were drawn b e t w e e n Vlasov's supporters and the Decembrist rising, this was in order to ex- plain that the Russian Liberation M o v e m e n t was part o f the mainstream o f the devel- o p m e n t o f Russian history rather than as a way of analysing the state o f m i n d o f the Red Army. Instead, unjustified reliance was placed on sagacity o f the Western Allies as a way o f ensuring justice and change. Hoffmann contends that the failure o f Soviet writers to give an accurate account o f the Russian Liberation Movement, caricaturing Vlasov's intentions without providing c o m p l e t e texts o f any statements, offers p r o o f that the p r o g r a m was potentially a serious threat to the regime. It has been argued that the virulent Soviet response to Vlasov in 1943 shows that the authorities were afraid that TI - Lawrence Aronsen and Martin Kitchen. The Origins of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective: American, British and Canadian Relations with the Soviet Union, 1941-48. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. x, 232 pp. $39. 95. JO - Russian History DO - 10.1163/187633190X00534 DA - 1990-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/lawrence-aronsen-and-martin-kitchen-the-origins-of-the-cold-war-in-88slR8VXhR SP - 240 EP - 241 VL - 17 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -