The Soviet partisan movement and German occupation policy in Western, Soviet and post-Soviet writing.-- The case study area : the rear areas of Army Group North.-- Soviet and German preparations for occupation and resistance.-- The establishment and nature of German military government.-- The fledgling partisan movement.-- Who was winning the partisan war during 1941? The military effectiveness of the partisan movement.-- Life under German military government c. December 1941-spring/summer 1943.-- German 'anti-partisan' warfare and the civilian population.-- The Soviet partisan movement comes of age.-- The suppression of the adolescent partisan movement : partisan losses, the fragmentation of units and forced withdrawal to Soviet lines.-- Evacuation, scorched earth, and the emergence of a 'vsenarodnoe' partisan movement 1963