Confronting the chilling agony of the Siege of Leningrad in the Great Patriotic War Museum.

Epic victory: Euphoria at Stalingrad in the Great Patriotic War Museum.

A historian views the Battle for Moscow in the Museum of the Great Patriotic War. 

So big was World War II that the second defeat of the German Sixth Army at the “Jassy-Kishinev operation” is now almost forgotten.

How the strategic location of the diamond-shaped peninsula proved too much for the Germans.

The heroic stand of Finland against the Soviet Union in 1939 was a lesson for the ages.

A bridge leads to one man’s journey from war to a hopeful tomorrow.

A street photo and statue evoke vivid memories of war’s destruction.

How the GI Bill enabled Richard Pipes to study Russian history at Harvard.

Willy Peter Reese offers a harrowing depiction of the descent into indifference to suffering and inhumanity that characterized the Eastern Front in World War II.