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- ↑ Paddy Griffith (1994). Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack, 1916-18. Yale University Press. p. 32.
- ↑ "breakthrough" . Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) - "Observer 20 June 8/4 (headline) The break through."
- ↑ Harper, Douglas. "breakthrough". Online Etymology Dictionary . Retrieved 2017-01-30.
- ↑ Stalin, I (1929-11-07). "Год великого перелома: к XII годовщине Октября" [The year of the great breakthrough: towards the twelfth anniversary of October]. Pravda (in Russian). No. 259. Moscow. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
Истекший год был годом великого перелома на всех фронтах социалистического строительства. Перелом этот шел и продолжает идти под знаком решительного наступления социализма на капиталистические элементы города и деревни. [This year has been the year of the great breakthrough on all fronts of the construction of socialism. This breakthrough took place and continues to take place under the sign of a determined attack by socialism on the capitalist elements in town and country.]
- ↑ Gellately, Robert (2007). "9: Stalin's new initiatives". Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe. Random House (published 2012). p. 165. ISBN 9781448138784 . Retrieved 2017-01-30.
Under the heading 'Year of the Great Breakthrough' (perlom)[sic], Stalin gave a review of the Five-Year Plan for Pravda on November 3, 1929. The occasion was to celebrate victories on various fronts on the anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The justification for the intense industrialization drive was couched in typically military language [...].
