Figures published for the first time in a new study issued today revealed that more than 500,000 Jews served in the Russian army during World War II, and that 67,000 of them won medals for meritorious ...

Konstantin Dobrovolsky searches for the remains of soldiers left to rot on the battlefield almost 80 years ago. Then he had to bury his own son, who fought in a war he despises. Burying the remains of ...

Archive film, computer-generated imagery and innovative reconstructions tell the Red Army's story of their bloody defeat to Nazi Germany in Kiev in 1941. From the very first days of the war the USSR ...

An archive of thousands of images of the Soviet Union's 1939 invasion of Finland have been scanned and digitized, revealing the harrowing human details of the David vs. Goliath struggle. On November ...

The final weeks of April 1945 saw Soviet troops advance on Berlin, bringing World War II in Europe to an end. Amid the Soviet onslaught and the confused Nazi retreat, Russian troops found ways to ...

In “November 1942,” Peter Englund pieces together a month in the Second World War with the diaries and memoirs of the people who survived it. By Caroline Alexander The Soviet military often used ...

In Moscow's Red Square, Russian soldiers in historical uniforms and armored vehicles take part in a rehearsal for a parade marking the 77th anniversary of the 1941 Battle of Moscow. (Yuri ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over the Germans. To ensure the ground effort got to Berlin, the air war had to be ...

In 1982, Igor Yerin was working in a Moscow car plant when he was drafted into the Soviet army at age 20 and sent to Afghanistan to fight U.S.-backed guerrillas known as the mujahedeen. He ended up ...

During a bill signing ceremony in June, Donald Trump made the bizarre claim that Vladimir Putin led the Soviet Union during ...