In 1946, fresh from its epic victory over Nazi Germany, the Red Army was renamed the Soviet Army. It was a symbolic step: No longer seen as the muscle of a theoretical future world Communist ...

The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

Living history hobbyist Craig Hall portrays a Soviet Cavalry officer and discusses the role of the Soviet Union in World War II. Appearing at the annual Army Heritage Days event in Carlisle ...

Generalissimo of the Soviet Union was a proposed military rank, specifically created for Joseph Stalin in 1945 “for especially outstanding service to the Motherland in the management of all of ...

This article originally appeared in the Aug. 20, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov—by Geoffrey Roberts (Random House, $30). The most formidable Allied ...

The survey also reported that at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, there were more than 150,000 Jews in the Polish army and in the period before Poland surrendered three weeks later, 32,000 ...