Built in the 1930s under the steel rule of Joseph Stalin, the small Polikarpov I-16 was a revolutionary monoplane with one of the most influential designs in history. But despite playing a crucial ...

In the 1930s, the Soviet Union used aviation to showcase its technological and cultural progress, with female aviators like Marina Raskova at the forefront. Raskova, often called the Soviet Union’s ...

The Eastern Front during World War II was one of the most brutal and devastating arenas of the entire conflict.[...] ...

This Appendix to Vadim Rogovin's work, “Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR” uses official archival data to reveal the true scale of the ...

The discovery served as a reminder of Russia’s dark history at the start of World War II, when Soviet leader Joseph Stalin struck a deal with Nazi Germany. “On Sept. 17, 1939, the Soviet Union ...