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The Battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd, July 1942 to February 1943) was an attempt by Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) to control the USSR's access to the Caucasus oil fields. Fierce street-fighting...

Soviet propaganda poster for Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plan, illustration by Yakov Guminer, 1931. The poster urges workers that if they add their enthusiasm then the plan can be achieved in just four...

Soviet War memorial in the Großer Tiergarten, Berlin, photographed by Manfred Brueckels, 2007. The memorial itself was unveiled in November 1945 to commemorate the Soviet Union's losses in the war, especially those...

James Longstreet (1821-1904) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, serving chiefly under Robert E. Lee in the Eastern theater. He was regarded as one of the most effective commanders...

The Battle of Franklin (30 November 1864) was a major battle in the western theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In his push to liberate Nashville from Northern occupation, Confederate Lieutenant...

The Battle of Nashville (15-16 December 1864) was the last major battle in the western theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865). After suffering a catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Franklin...

The Battle of Bentonville (19-21 March 1865) was among the last major battles of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Having cut swathes of destruction first through Georgia...

A photograph of a meeting of the Petrograd Soviet (workers' council) in 1917.

Photograph of a Soviet Gulag in Estonia, c. 1940s-50s. Gulags were used to detain those considered enemies of the state where they were used as forced labour. Estonian Sports and Olympic Museum.

A former Soviet collective farm (kolkhoz) in Armenia, photograph by Moreau.henri, 19 November 2010. Private farms were first collectivised into state-owned enterprises during Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plans through...