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As we mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, RFE/RL is looking again at some of the factors that determined the course of the struggle and shaped the new world that emerged from it.

“Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941” is the second volume of a planned trilogy on the life of Joseph Stalin. (Uncredited) Perspective by Ronald Grigor Suny A frenzy of hunting for spies and ...

Most Russians blame the Soviet leadership under dictator Joseph Stalin for the huge losses of life the country suffered during the World War II, an opinion poll suggested on Sunday. Most of the 1,600 ...

We knew Stalin had his head in the sand as the Nazi invasion approached in June 1941, but not how criminally deluded he was, despite intelligence reports and the urgings of his two top military ...

VOSKRESENSK: A group of Soviet mechanics slog through a muddy forest on a mission that would eventually help change the course of World War II: reaching dictator Joseph Stalin. Among them is an ...

Editor’s note: This piece, included in Ada Pagis’s collection of short fiction “A History Lesson” and translated into English by Tsipi Keller, was originally published on August 19, 2011. It was ...