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 Cold War strategist George Kennan, in his “Memoirs” (1967), tells how he once escorted a group of drunken congressmen to meet the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The year was 1945, and Kennan was ...

Originally produced eight decades ago, the impact of the IS-2 Heavy Tank still reverberates today. The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important ...