This prelude to our Eastern Front WWII series explores how Stalin reshaped the Soviet Union into a global military force.

effectively ending thirty years of de facto independence since a war that followed the fall of the Soviet Union. More than 100,000 people were forced to flee their homes with what few possessions ...

It was first used in 1947. By using the word “war,” it captured the seemingly life-or-death struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union and between capitalism and communism.

The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important conflicts: World War II and the Cold War. Its importance to Soviet history is fitting, since it's ...

And the end of the Cold War killed the Soviet Union, which first lost its satrapies in Eastern Europe and then disintegrated into 15 independent states. Yet empires don’t die quickly ...

Here’s how it works. The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country. It was established following a civil war in Russia that raged from 1917 to 1921. The Soviet Union controlled a vast ...

But there was a problem. Right in line with the Yak-141's first vertical takeoff came the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. As Glastnost and Perestroika on the part of Mikhail Gorbachev ...

The fighting in Ukraine is the latest and worst of the wars fought over the remnants of the Soviet Union, an empire whose death throes continue some thirty years after the union itself ceased to ...

"Therefore, the German government declares: "In conflict with all her obligations, the Soviet Union has turned against Germany and increased her anti-German measures since the outbreak of the war.

Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II. Her archival research demonstrates that the Soviets saw the German prisoners of ...