Far from opening up a bright new future for capitalism, the end of the Soviet Union and its autarkic national economy foreshadowed the transformation or collapse of all parties and institutions ...

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 ...

The great political upheaval of the late 20th century-the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union-is now generally regarded as the spontaneous product of long ...

In January, the Siberian city of Magadan averages a high of 9 degrees F, its port on the Pacific kept accessible only with ...

as he drew a comparison with the collapse of the Soviet Union. He said: "I think almost everybody was surprised that the Soviet Union collapsed. It happens so suddenly. We were not prepared for ...

to be “different”, to lose his hair because of pollution and to fall in love with a Chechen girl. All this during the turbulent times of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

said that the movie “was always running on television on every channel” in the 1990s during the new year holidays. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asian countries like ...

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks ...