During World War II, thousands of women served in the Soviet Red Army as snipers, medics, pilots, and frontline soldiers.

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 ...

History is replete with cautionary tales about the dangers of ideological purges, particularly when they target national-security institutions. One of the starkest examples comes from the Soviet Union ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...