The International Perspectives prepared the IC for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 ... Soviet Union and its autarkic national economy foreshadowed the transformation or ...

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 ...

In Dresden, East Germany he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later, Putin and 800,000 KGB officers were left shipwrecked.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s heralded an era of environmental recovery from intensive military and industrial expansion. Since then, greenhouse gas emissions and pollution ...

The end of the Cold War By the beginning of the 1980s, the Soviet Union faced several challenges. The taking down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 kick-started the fall of the Soviet Union.