In the aftermath of World War II, the Soviet Union sought to assert its naval dominance, unveiling the formidable ...

The Second World War was without doubt the most destructive event in human history. As with all wars there were winners and ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

Stalin was leader of the Soviet Union during World War II, when the IS-2 was first developed to help defeat German forces at a time when it wasn't certain that was possible.

Country of origin: Soviet Union The Yakovlev Yak-9 stood out as the fighter aircraft with the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an estimated 16,769 units manufactured.

While the Soviet Union ultimately lost the Cold War, the "Great Patriotic War," as World War II is known in Russia, would become a national founding myth for the new Russian Federation.

As World War II drew to a close, millions of Russians and other Soviet citizens found themselves outside the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Some were prisoners of war, others civilian forced ...

The Soviet sacrifice of World War II The Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War from 1941-45. That sacrifice left a deep scar in the national psyche.

When Privolnoye’s men were called to the World War II front to defend their ... Andropov and Gorbachev shared their fear that if reforms were not executed in the Soviet Union the economy was ...

The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in World War II, including many millions in Ukraine, but eventually pushed Nazi forces back to Berlin, where Hitler committed suicide and the red Soviet ...

Across Eastern and Central Europe, dominated by Moscow for nearly a half-century after the end of World War II, a long-running memory war over whether the Soviet Union liberated the region from ...