Marshall D. Shulman, one of the nation’s best-known scholars of Soviet studies and founding director of the W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia ...

The last marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Yazov, who was a key player in the political turmoil that precipitated the collapse of the USSR, died in Moscow on Tuesday aged 95. Yazov, who was then ...

The last marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Yazov, who participated in a coup against then USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died. Yazov died in Moscow at the age of 95 following a ...

A statue of Marshal Konev was erected in Prague in 1980 during the post-1968 normalisation period, intended to reinforce allegiance to the Soviet Union. In 2020, Prague city councillors voted to ...

APPOINTED Minister of Defense last week, and boss of all armed forces in the Soviet Union: Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 58. A thick-bodied Great Russian with broad Slav face and close ...

Beyrle was given a Soviet uniform and a submachine gun ... There, he was visited by the famed Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov. Through an interpreter, Beyrle told Zhukov all about how he ended ...

so was [British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur] Tedder. Everybody began to talk animatedly and shake hands. Soviet officers embraced each other with bear hugs." Now that the Soviet Union was ...