Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Russian, Soviet and CIS military history task force

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Welcome to the Russian, Soviet and CIS military history task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below.

The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here.

Scope
This task force covers much of the military history of the post-Soviet states and territories formerly part of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire.

It covers twelve Soviet successor states Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, and also the nearby state of Mongolia.

However, the military affairs in the area of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are the subject of the Baltic states military history task force, Finland’s military history is covered by the Nordic military history task force, and Poland’s military history has the Polish military history task force.

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Participants
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 * 1)  (mostly former Central Asian, Eastern European, and Caucasus Soviet Republics)
 * 2)  (mainly Eastern Front of WWII and some modern warfare-related stuff)
 * 3)  (Current Russian military and former Soviet military)


 * 1)  (Georgians in imperial Russian service, Russo-Turkish & Crimean Wars, Soviet-Georgian related)


 * 1)  (Russian army during the reign of Stalin)


 * 1)  (Napoleonic Wars and Crimean War)
 * 2)  (WWII)


 * 1)  (Ukrainian military history, armoured fighting vehicles)


 * 1)  (Individual military units post-1945, CE and other cleanup)
 * 2)  (Russian imperial army)
 * 3)  (Soviet Military, WW2 through Cold War)


 * 1)  (Kievan Rus', partitions of Poland, Bessarabia, Russia in WWI, USSR in WWII)

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Books

 * David Glantz, Colossus series, including David Glantz, Companion to Colossus Reborn: Key Documents and Statistics, Lawrence, Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 2005
 * Hartlet, Janet M., Keenan, Paul, Lieven, Dominic. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850: Russia and the Napoleonic Wars.
 * John Erickson's works
 * militera.lib.ru - has V.I. Feskov et al, The Soviet Army in the Period of the Cold War, Tomsk University Press, Tomsk, 2004, as well as other Russian military books. Feskov et al 2013 should be used in preference to Feskov et al 2004.
 * Goldmine of information on soviet ground forces here: Link Google Books allows the full viewing!
 * Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky's "KGB: The Inside Story of its foreign operations from Lenin to Gorbachev", 1990, Hodder and Stoughton, ISBN:0-340-48561-2

Forums

 * Axis History forum Soviet, Eastern Front, and translation help sections - English-language forum home to users who are fluent in both English and Russian
 * VIF2NE - Military History Forum, 2-nd version, Novik's edition - good place to talk and to listen...
 * forum on the Red Army Guards and rifle divisions (relatively new) in Russian
 * Soldat.ru forum - forum on Soviet Union/Russian Federation & CIS military history

Glossaries

 * User:Ceriy/Military terms
 * US Military Russian Military Dictionary: English-Russian, Russian-English, 1945
 * Russian-English Dictionary of Operational, Tactical and General Military Terms, 1960

Documents

 * Pamyat Naroda - Declassified documents from the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence pertaining to the 1941-1945 period
 * Gwar.mil.ru, Памяти героев Великой войны 1914–1918 - Documents from World War I and Russian Civil War
 * Soviet military documents digitized by Polish archives - contains documents pertaining to prewar Red Army organization, Soviet invasion of Poland, and creation of Polish People's Army
 * Soviet Documents at Russian Archives - Files of the State Defense Committee 1941-1945 and Council of People's Commissars 1918-1991.
 * БОЕВОЙ СОСТАВ СОВЕТСКОЙ АРМИИ за 1941-1945 гг.(Combat Composition of the Soviet Army 1941-45; Russian)
 * 1941
 * 1942
 * 1943
 * 1944
 * 1945
 * Perecheni, lists of Soviet units in the active army 1941–1945
 * Soviet Ministry of Defense compilation of orders awarding Soviet units decorations, recently declassified.
 * Part I: 1920–1944
 * Part II: 1945–1966
 * Official Soviet Ministry of Defense list of commanding officers of corps, divisions and tank brigades 1941-1945. Note that dates refer to orders and may not reflect reality "on the ground".
 * Archived soldat.ru files for downloading, listing honorifics awarded to Soviet units 1918-1945, based on archival documents
 * NKO compilation of 1941–1944 orders awarding honorary titles to military units
 * NKO compilation of 1941–1944 Guards unit conversion orders
 * TsAMO Unit histories

Websites

 * Combat activity of Red Army in the Great Patriotic War
 * War heroes (site dedicated to heroes of USSR and RF)
 * Aviators of the Second World War (in Russian) by Vasily Valer'yevich Kharin
 * alphabetic index to equipment designation names (Russian)
 * Podvig is a good source on Russian nuclear forces, including the history http://russianforces.org/ (English)
 * Website on Soviet tank troops in World War II
 * Red Army history website
 * World War II history statistical materials

Official websites
Use with much caution as these are primary sources. Articles/pages can confirm existence of military units or lineage information.
 * Russian Ministry of Defense
 * Krasnaya Zvezda, official Russian MoD newspaper
 * Voenno-istoricheskiy zhurnal, official military historical journal of the Russian MoD
 * Belarusian Ministry of Defense
 * Vo slavu rodiny, official Belarus MoD newspaper
 * Ukrainian Ministry of Defense
 * Narodnaya armiya, official Ukrainian MoD newspaper
 * Viysko ukrainy, official Ukrainian MoD magazine

Photographs

 * Russian Archives photograph & film collection for World War II period
 * RGAKFD photograph archives
 * Russian state photograph archives

Related country WikiProjects

 * Armenia
 * Azerbaijan
 * Belarus
 * Georgia
 * Kazakhstan
 * Kyrgyzstan
 * Moldova
 * Mongols
 * Russia
 * Tajikistan
 * Turkmenistan
 * Ukraine
 * Uzbekistan