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 ...

"I started to understand the power that the Red Army represented and the fear that it provoked ... I decided to seek out these military remains throughout the former Soviet territories, relics of ...

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Nazi Germany had invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and killed an estimated ... garrison of about 95,000 faced two full Soviet army groups attacking from the east and south.