Stalin

Operation Barbarossa gave the Soviets common cause with the British, and subsequently the Americans. Getting supplies to the Soviets to help them resist the Germans became a strategic imperative, and Iran’s geography brought it to the front and center in the strategic supply effort....

The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union’s secret police and internal security agencies....

From the early fall of 1941 until the winter of 1944, the Soviet city of Leningrad (today’s St. Petersburg) was almost completely surrounded by the forces of Nazi Germany and Finland. If you want to learn more about the Siege of Leningrad, buy this book today!....

In this, the fourth installment of Noel Hynd’s hugely popular Flowers from Berlin series, William Thomas Cochrane returns to Berlin as part of a ...

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees....

More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation....

In 1945, the Nazi war machine was finally crushed and cities and countries all over Europe were being liberated by the Allied Forces. Great shouts of joy could be heard. Young girls in Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, and other cities across Europe kissed young GIs and other liberating forces....

This is the first major publication on the remarkable life and career of Boris Iofan, state architect to Joseph Stalin. Iofan's story is an insight into the troubled relationship of all successful architects with power....

In "The Cellblock Conclave: World Leaders Unleashed," listeners are taken on a hilarious and satirical journey into the world of politics, power, and absurdity. The story revolves around four of the world's most influential leaders during WWII who find themselves incarcerated in the same jail cell.

Partly out of dire circumstances and partly from a cultural worldview, it was the Soviet Union who first pressed female pilots into direct combat when Hitler invaded Russia....

War in Korea! November 1950... Red China launches a full-scale attack to help North Korea crush South Korea and conquer the peninsula. Josef ...

Separated by vast gulfs of political, cultural, and philosophical divergence, the three chief Allied nations of World War II attempted to formulate a joint policy....

Let The History Journals take you on an hourly history tour of each year of the war with The World War II History Journals series which includes one book per year from 1939 to 1945....

Timothy Snyder argues that previous accounts of World War II have kept Nazi and Soviet crimes unduly separate, with much more attention paid to Adolf Hitler's atrocities than Joseph Stalin's....

My Dearest Dido: The Holodomor Story is a haunting account of the innocent victims of Stalin’s vicious regime....

Standing in history like a milestone marking the boundary between one era and the next, the Potsdam Conference brought together the leaders of the three major Allied powers....

Back in the USSA is a remarkable non-fiction hybrid that, in so many ways, defies classification. Seen through the eyes of expatriate author, Boris...

Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon....

In World War II Ivan Demidov won the Red Army's highest award for bravery, that of Hero of the Soviet Union....

Joseph Stalin rose from humble roots to become the greatest madman of the 20th century. His disregard for human life dwarfs Hitler's, as does the scale of his crimes....