Russian leaders were intensely proud of having the largest tank fleet in the world for over fifty years. While the Red Army largely disintegrated in the early 1990s, the army sought to keep as many of ...

Moscow 1936 During the demise of the Soviet Union, the army played some role in the changes more than once, for better or worse. During the 1991 attempted coup against President Gorbachev ...

Gary Saul Morson speculates that “Hitler might well have won [his war against the Soviet Union] had he abolished ... most famously the Vlasov Army. Captured at Leningrad, now St. Petersburg ...

diminish the decisive role of the Soviet Army and the Soviet Union in the final defeat of Nazism. That is why it is our duty and our obligation to pass the truth on to new generations, to our ...

Stalin promotes an image of himself as a great benevolent leader and hero of the Soviet Union. Yet he is increasingly paranoid and purges the Communist party and Army of anyone who might oppose him.