For example, in 1934, direct military expenditures rose from 1,655 million rubles to 5,000 million rubles, or more than trebled. The increases of 1961, 1962 and 1963 showed that the Soviet Government ...

The press service of the Russian Military-Historical Society ... power struggle that arose in the Soviet Union immediately after Joseph Stalin’s death in March 1953. Prior to its scheduled ...

His response to the growing evidence provided by Nicolai Yezhov was to demote and reassign the main officers, such as Marshal Tukhachevsky, deputy to Kliment Voroshilov, the Soviet Commissar for ...

In today’s episode, we are going to look at the tanks that bore the name of the Soviet leader Josef Stalin, known to his followers as the Man of Steel. This is the story of the Stalin heavy ...

After a night of heavy drinking Stalin dies of a stroke on 5 March 1953. Many in the Soviet Union mourn the loss of this great leader who transformed the Soviet Union from a feudal economy to an ...

This volume is the first major study by a Russian Marxist historian of the most tragic and fateful year in the history of the Soviet Union ... and consequences of Stalin’s purges.

He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. At 2 am on August ... At the last minute, the military commander organized an evacuation; some of those removed ...

W hen the leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, millions in the country wept with grief. Many millions more wept, unsure of why. For almost three decades, ...

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union ... it did allow the USSR to demonstrate its military might (during the Hungarian Crisis) and its refusal ...