"Concise, fact-filled biographical sketches of the personages who shaped and directed the events of this titanic conflict."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Some 1,400 biographies cover leading personalities from 1917 to the present, paying special attention to politicians, journalists, social scientists, and writers who have contributed to glasnost.
Indiana University Bloomington has a large collection of Soviet military topographic maps. There is an interactive index map and IUB is in the process of digitizing the collection.