[Cross-posted from The Russian Front]
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: It’s amazing what one can find on the Internet.
In the summer of 2005, the city of Moscow played host to a photographic exhibit honoring the 60th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War. Titled, “1418 Days,” the exhibit drew upon a collection of […]

In the years that followed 1945, one of the more contentious debates between Soviet and Western scholars of the Second World War concerned the role of the Allied Lend-Lease program in contributing to the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany. Western scholars tended to view the Allied delivery of materiel and equipment as the decisive […]

[This is the second of a four-part series of posts concerning “The Past, Present, and Possible Future of Russian History in America.” For background information on this series, click here. For Part One, here. Cross-posted from The Russian Front.]
From under the rubble
Although the years that immediately followed the demise of the Soviet system were accompanied […]

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[ My apologies for the long delay in posting the last segment of my series on the VVS Museum. After uploading Part Five, I took a week off to visit family and friends. Since then I’ve been hard at work with some […]

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Getting Down to Business: The Aircraft Collection
The Museum’s outdoor aircraft collection is divided into eight different sections. One of these is devoted to helicopters. Of the remaining seven, two consist of groups devoted to “Military-Transport Aircraft” and “Airplanes of the Great Patriotic War.” The rest […]