Articles.

Prokhorovka: "The Unknown Battle of the Great Patriotic War."
This article was published in a very good Russian military journal called Tankomaster. The article is written for history buffs, so it is not only that my translation is hard to understand. I have included some maps from David Glantz'es book on The Battle of Kursk and some screenshots from the Combat Mission game. In my personal opinion, it is the best short essay on the subject.

"Banner #5: Capture of the Reichstag in 1945."
My second translation is of an article that appeared in the Russian Literary Gazette. It is very well written and accessible to a common reader.

The Special Volunteers.
I found this article in an online newspaper and decided to translate it because it is about the Glorious 6th "Stalin" Rifle Corps and not only...

Two excerpts from recent books about Red Army Infantry Tactics in Stalingrad.

A translated article and some comments about Soviet Body Armor in WWII.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: article by J. Samuel Walker and other materials.

Raw material from Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World book featuring “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection” and more.

A case study The Great Terror from an American college textbook on Russian history.

The Appendix from a recent book on the Gulag.

The Conclusion from a recent book on the Battle of Kursk.

Raw material from two books by Walter S. Dunn.

A few linked excerpts (Preface, Plan "Barbarossa", Soviet War Planning, Soviet Response, Conclusions, Appendix I,
Appendix II) from a recent book on the Barbarossa by David M. Glantz.

A case study Did Stalin Plan to Attack Nazi Germany in July 1941? from the same American college textbook on Russian history. This article serves as an introduction to several raw material pages based on articles by Weinberg, Messerschmidt, Von Hagen, Thurston, Streit and Isaev.

A comparative list of Hague and Geneva of some of the conventions ratified by Germany and Russia before WWII.