A Breakdown of Civil-Military Relations: The Soviet Coup of 1991 by Heinrich Matthee

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Commissariats of Military Industry during the Great Patriotic War by Yu. V. Il’In

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The Process of Military Involvement of the USSR in the Afghan Conflict: a U.S. View by Taisiуa V. Rabush

“…The author examines the process of Soviet military involvement in the events that took place in Afghanistan from the viewpoint of the United States. …”
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Oliferov's Raid on the Territory of Kuzbass in the Winter of 1920–1921: Why the Red Failed by A. N. Ermolaev, E. D. Dubrovskaya

“…The irregular Soviet military units were known for their weak discipline, poor training, and frequent cases of desertion. …”
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Difficulties and Achievements: formation of Siberian Directorate of Military Educational Institutions of the Red Army (1919–1920) by I. V. Fedotova

“…The author comes to the conclusion about the key role of the Soviet military leaders M. N. Tukhachevsky and N. I. …”
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Lissner - Mirror Image of Sorge by A Grigor'evich Fesyun

“…He worked in the Far-East in the 1930s and 1940s and actually repeated the fate of the Soviet Military Intelligence officer Richard Sorge.…”
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Lissner – mirror image of Sorge by A Grigor'evich Fesyun

“…He worked in the Far-East in the 1930s and 1940s and actually repeated the fate of the Soviet Military Intelligence officer Richard Sorge.…”
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„NULTI PACIJENT“: POČECI DELOVANJA SOVJETSKE OBAVEŠTAJNE SLUŽBE U KRALJEVINI JUGOSLAVIJI by Aleksej Timofejev

“…The organizers and core staff of the Union of Soviet Patriots, an emigrant illegal organization during the Second World War, emerged from the ranks of school students. The Soviet military intelligence service began to operate in Yugoslavia only from the beginning of the Second World War (more precisely, until the arrival of the Soviet military attaché in Belgrade. …”
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The Soviet-Afghan War in Russian Literature by Swartz, H

“…</p> <p>The analysis shows Afghan War literature to signal a radical break with recent official Soviet military writing as shaped by socialist realism. …”

NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT by N. Wagner

“…As a result of their sanctioning the Yalta Agreement and ,heir condonation, without any legal right, of Soviet military control over, inter alia, Manchuria and Korea, the basis was laid for communist expansionism in Eastern Europe.…”
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Commanders of the Great Victory by Anatoly Dmitriyevich Borshchov

“…In an article dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great War examines the experience of formation and practice of the most talent-ed Soviet military leaders.…”
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Autumn 1936: the battle for Madrid (from the working materials of the book on the history of Spain in the ХХ century) by A. Orlov

“…The author tells about the participation in the war of members of International brigades, Soviet military specialists, shares his own memories of the opening of the monument to Soviet volunteers in the suburbs of Madrid in 1989. …”
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Commanders of the Great Victory by A. D. Borshchov

“…In an article dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great War examines the experience of formation and practice of the most talent-ed Soviet military leaders.…”
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Uloga komande Crvene armije u podizanju grobnih mesta sovjetskih vojnika u Srbiji by Milana Živanović

“…Based on documents from Russian and Serbian archives, postwar press and literature, this article analyses the involvement of the Soviet military command in memorial construction – building monuments, memorials and cemeteries for the Soviet soldiers who fell in Serbia; and its involvement in the postwar funerary rituals from the autumn of 1944 through the end of 1945. …”
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Three Hundred Years of Glory and Gloom by Elena Givental

“…The Urals are also notoriously known as a site of the Soviet military industrial complex, the birthplace of the Soviet nuclear program, and the most polluted region in Russia. …”
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THE HOT “COLD WAR”: THE USSR IN SOUTHERN AFRICA by Deon Visser

“…<br />In The Hot “Cold War”: The USSR in Southern Africa Shubin aims to ‘set the<br />record straight’ with regard to Moscow’s involvement in Southern Africa during the<br />Cold War, especially the role of the Soviet military, which he believes ‘is covered<br />inadequately or even distorted’ (p. xv). …”
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Soviet advisors and the kuomintang's strategy of military construction in 1920s by A G Yurkevich

“…The article considers the policy, conducted by Soviet military advisers of Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang government in South China in the field of military construction in 1920s. …”
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Dedovshchina and the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers under Gorbachev by Julie Elkner

“…This article provides an historical account of the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers’ role in breaking the taboo on dedovshchina in the Soviet military in the late 1980s. I argue that soldiers’ mothers’ activism on this issue played a crucial role in opening up the military to public scrutiny and in influencing public perceptions of military service. …”
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Cherepovets Prisoner-of-War Camp No. 158 (1942–1948): Structure, Population, Production Activity by Aleksandr L. Kuz'minykh

“…Based on a wide range of sources of official and personal origin, the article examines the history of the Cherepovets Prisoner-of-War Camp no. 158 The author reveals the stages of the camp’s activities, starting with screening of Soviet military men who had been in German captivity or encirclement and ending with the labor use of prisoners of war of the German army and their allies. …”
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Geopolitical transformation of the Kaliningrad oblast of the Russian Federation by Jokubaitis Alvydas, Lopata Raimundas

“…After the World War II, the part of East Prussia taken by the Soviet Union was transformed into a gigantic Soviet military base. It performed the functions of the outpost in the West on the one hand; and on the other hand, of the barrier which helped the USSR to ensure the dependence of the Eastern Baltics and domination in Poland. …”
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