followed shortly thereafter by the collapse of the Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe, that culminated in December 1991 in the formal liquidation of the Soviet Union. The destruction of the ...

The Soviet Union’s collapse 32 years ago led to rapid change, economic collapse, and violence. In Tajikistan, that violence slid rapidly into civil war. Five experts explore the legacy of the ...

Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two of the key signatories of the dissolution treaty, a witness to the ensuing ...

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

Born in Moscow at the turn of the century, Varia Bortsova was too young to remember the collapse of the USSR in 1991 after ... the young man on the right pairs a traditional Soviet fur hat with a ...

While George F Kennan, the architect of US Containment policy, lived beyond 100 years to see his strategy succeed, it was Carter who laid the foundation of the actual collapse of the Soviet Union.

the Soviet Union profoundly shaped the trajectory of global history, from its birth as a sovereign state in 1917 to its collapse in 1991. The Russian Revolution provided a blueprint for the ...