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

'Tariffs all the way': Trump says European Union must buy U.S. oil and gas in trade ultimatum ...

Surprisingly little is known in the West about the role of Central Asia in World War II. This scholarly but thoroughly ...

Moscow said it would be open for representatives from the "anti-Hitler coalition" to join its May 9 events in Moscow.

It began when Nazi Germany unleashed ferocious attacks across Europe - but it spread to the Soviet Union ... war in history comes to an end. WW2: How was D-Day, the biggest ever seaborne invasion ...

The manga is not set in Japan, but in the former Soviet Union. It was adapted from ... hundreds of Soviet women who volunteered in World War II after a staggering number of male combatants ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended congratulations on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of victory in the Second World War to leaders and nations that formerly made up the Soviet ...

The Soviet T-34 tank was vital in securing the Red Army's victory in WW2 The Russian government has warned Poland that it will face sanctions if it removes monuments glorifying the Soviet victory ...

The aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union by Britain after Nazi Germany invaded the country in 1941. They were part of a package of allied military support for the USSR, paid for by the United ...

They also wanted their new rivals, the Soviet Union, to see their powerful ... the surprising things key people thought at the time. WW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the world.

After the fall of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers, each striving for primacy on a global scale. As rocket technology improved ...