Nikolai Shpanov

Nikolai Shpanov (Николай Николаевич Шпанов, Nikolay Shpanov, Nikolai Španov) (1896–1961)^[1] was a Russian political writer, who wrote Incendiaries, 1949, in which he described the lead-up of the Second World War.

Bibliography

The First Blow (Pervii Udar, 1939. Published before the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it is a fictional account of the upcoming war between Third Reich and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Air Force stages a highly successful raid on industrial targets in Nuremberg. It was withdrawn from bookstores after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact on cooperation between the Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany was signed.^[2])
Incendiaries (Podzhigateli, 1949)

References

^ Terras, Victor (1990). Handbook of Russian Literature. Yale University Press. p. 100.
^ Kukulin, Ilya (2017). Периодика для ИТР: советские научно-популярные журналы и моделирование интересов позднесоветской научно-технической интеллигенции. Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye (in Russian). 145 (3).