In 1945, as World War II came to a close, tensions simmered beneath the Allied victory raising the question: could the U.S. and U.K. have turned on the Soviet Union and won? This video explores the ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

In this documentary, we cover the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most decisive engagements of World War II. Fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1942 to 1943, the battle marked a ...

A number of historians have argued that World War II was a phase of one long war lasting from 1914 to 1945 or even until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991—a global civil war, first between ...

The Soviet sacrifice of World War II The Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War from 1941-45. That sacrifice left a deep scar in the national psyche.

The US discourse—which places an excessive emphasis on the Normandy Landings of 1944—also highlights the Pacific Theatre of the war in which Japan was the main Axis Enemy of the Allies. Since 1945, a ...

A submarine that sunk during World War II has been discovered off the Pacific Coast, Russia's Pacific Fleet said Monday. The Malyutka-class submarine went missing during the war in the Peter the ...

The Soviet Union lost an estimated 27 million people in what Russians call the “Great Patriotic War” -– a staggering toll that left a lasting imprint on the nation’s collective memory.

World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and secret protocols to it between the Soviet Union and the Third ...

The Cold War and its effects. Remarks delivered at the Jordan Center Workshop, New York University, November 1, 2024. My current reading of what Russia has become is based on my own experiences as ...

World War II veteran Mikhail Sukhinin, 97, poses for a portrait in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Sukhinin was drafted into the Soviet army in 1944 and served in a rifle regiment.