The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mikkel Dack, Rowan University (THE CONVERSATION) Even as the Ukrainian military in ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

The Soviet Union suffered the greatest losses of any country as it fought the Nazis in World War II. The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened up state archives and historians came up with a new ...

The Soviet government ordered the film, produced by Mosfilm, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1905 Potemkin uprising, which Lenin regarded as proof that sections of the armed forces could side ...

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 ...