Nikolai Shpanov

{{Short description|Russian writer (1896–1961)}}

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Nikolai Shpanov ({{langx|ru|Никола́й Никола́евич Шпа́нов}}; 1896–1961){{cite book|title=Handbook of Russian Literature|first=Victor|last=Terras|page=100|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1990}} 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 It was withdrawn from bookstores after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact on cooperation between the Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany was signed.{{cite journal|last=Kukulin|first=Ilya|year=2017|script-title=ru:Периодика для ИТР: советские научно-популярные журналы и моделирование интересов позднесоветской научно-технической интеллигенции|journal=Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye|volume=145|issue=3|url=http://nlobooks.ru/node/8614|language=Russian}})
  • Incendiaries (Podzhigateli, 1949)

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