He Joined the Red Army in 1918 and rose to great heights as military strategist and administrator. Among other distinctions he held was that of candidate for the Central Committee of the Communist ...

ISBN: 0700617760. Prof. Reese (Texas A&M) gives us a new and different look at the roots of the success of the Red Army in the “Great Patriotic War”. A volume in the excellent UPK series “Modern War ...

Stalin hesitated for almost two weeks in May-June 1937 before giving the NKVD the go ahead for the purge of the top Red Army leadership. His response to the growing evidence provided by Nicolai Yezhov ...

Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, who was regarded as one of the ... turned during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, when the Red Army eventually defeated the Germans and forced them out of ...

He joined the Communist party in 1918 and fought with the Red Army during the civil war. In the 1920s Khrushchev began his rapid rise to power and by the time Joseph Stalin died in March 1953 ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...

February 4-11: President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchilll, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet ... April 21: The Red Army of the Soviet Union reaches Berlin.

Churchill in Moscow is set during the British Bulldog's first meeting with Joseph Stalin in the Soviet ... whose forces were now fiercely engaged with the Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad.