Key Journals for finding scholarly articles on Soviet and East European History
Ab Imperio (many articles in English)
Cahiers du Monde Russe (includes English-language articles) (via online databases;
Website: http://monderusse.revues.org/ – type topic in chercher (“search”) window)
The April - September, 2008 issue (Volume 49, Nos. 2/3) of this journal is a special issue on World War II with the theme: "Sortie de guerre: L'URSS au lendemain de la Grande Guerre patriotique." "End of war: the USSR in the aftermath of the Great Patriotic War." Four of the articles are in English.
Canadian Slavonic Papers (full text available through JSTOR from 1956-2012).
The September-December 2012 issue (Volume 54, Nos. 3/4) of this journal is a special issue on World War II with the theme: "Historical Memory and World War II in Russia and Ukraine."
East European Jewish Affairs
The April 2016 issue (Volume 46, No. 1) of this journal is a special issue on World War II with the theme:
"Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II: German Occupation, Soviet Evacuation, and the Imagined Relationship between the Two Experiences."
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (includes English-language articles)
Full text available through JSTOR from 1936-2017.
(Website: http://www.steiner-verlag.de/JGO/ – you can look for tables of content here by clicking on a Band (“issue”);
avoid titles under Besprechungen as these are merely book reviews)
Kritika (all English)
The Summer 2009 issue (Volume 10, No. 3) of this journal is a special issue on World War II and I, with the theme: "Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914 - 1945."
Slavonic and East European Review
Journal of Slavic Military Studies
More general history journals, including the following, also feature articles on the Soviet Union:
American Historical Review, European History Quarterly, the Journal of Modern History, the Journal of Contemporary History, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Urban History, and the Journal of Women’s History.