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Articles
Successors of Rome: Russia,862-Present by Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D
Death of a dynasty: How the Romanovs met their end (Toby Saul at NationalGeographic.com)
From Tsar to U.S.S.R.: Russia’s Chaotic Year of Revolution by Orlando Figes for NationalGeographic.com
Comparing the Tsarist Russian and Soviet Empires by Magdalena Noga for InquiriesJournal.com
Stalin’s Victory: The Soviet Union & World War II by Geoffrey Roberts, Professor of History and International Relations at University College Cork.
How the Soviet Union helped save the world from Hitler during World War II: ‘It was the Western Allies’ extreme good fortune that the Russians, and not themselves, paid almost the entire ‘butcher’s bill’ for defeating Nazi Germany’ (Ishaan Tharoor at Independent.co.uk
U.S.-Soviet Alliance, 1941–1945 (the Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State
Russia accuses US of downplaying Soviet role in WWII ( Deutsche Welle
The Soviet Role in World War II: Realities and Myths (Mark Kramer, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
The USSR in World War II from the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies website
What Will Russia Do After the War? (the National WWII Museum of New Orleans