The MiG-29 and Su-27 were the Soviet Union's iconic fighter jets of the Cold War, but these dogfighters served sometimes very ...

Graziosi, Andrea 2024. Stalin and the Soviet theory of nationality and nationalism: Intellectual and political roots, implementation, and post-1991 legacies ...

Strange relationships are formed by war, not least that of the USSR and Great Britain in World War Two. The invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany in 1941 shattered their formerly expedient pact and ...

In 1945, the Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union as World War II came to a close. In Europe, the ...

On Oct. 16, 1978, the cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic Church elected Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to sit on the ...

Sugihara was based in Kaunas, which had a large, prosperous Jewish community of around 32,000 people when the Second World ...

Thousands of residents in Hamburg's Sternschanze district were evacuated after a World War II-era bomb was discovered during ...

The relationship between the UK and the Soviet Union was one of the key political and military relationships of World War II and the Cold War that followed it. Through the wartime alliance between the ...

In August 1939, the Japanese side was obliterated by a Soviet army that had an overwhelming ... as the true “starting point” of World War II.

Ukraine was liberated from German wartime occupation by 1944 but remained prisoner to its consequences for much longer. This study examines Soviet Ukraine's transition from war to 'peace' in the long ...

Archival records reveal that Koshkarbayev’s unit advanced from the Oder River to the heart of Berlin in just a few weeks, ...