HERE is something unusual, if not unknown under the sun: a book on Soviet Russia that is not written in the tone either of uncritical eulogy or of bitter detraction. As a result, and because Mr. Yugow ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The problem was that the Italian military was not well prepared for the Eastern Front, or any front for that matter. The soldiers were peasants, barely literate, with ...

A court in Russia has ruled that the mass killings of Soviet citizens in the village of Zhestyanaya Gorka in the northwestern region of Novgorod during World War II were an act of genocide.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Fighting a one-front war was the Soviet Union’s greatest advantage. Fighting a war on two fronts is the military equivalent of driving a car while texting. It’s just ...