title: The Great Patriotic War and after
abstract: The Soviet Union’s eventual victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 came at the expense of suffering and loss of life on an unimaginable scale. Compared to combined US and British losses of well under a million people overall, the Soviet Union lost, according to latest estimates, between 25 and 30 million lives, the majority of those civilian. While no breakdown of casualties by nationality exists, Russians made up the bulk of the Red Army and no doubt figured heavily among the military 
journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks