Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin has lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago as the demise of what he called "historical Russia" and said the economic crisis that ...

Thirty years ago the Soviet Union collapsed, bringing an epoch which opened up in 1917 to an end. But why did this 'superpower' implode? Was it inevitable? And what impact has the end of the Soviet ...

Vladimir Putin's most recent rhetoric once again spotlights the degree to which the Russian president is driven by resentment over the Soviet Union's collapse. The 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union ...

After emerging from World War II as a global power, the Soviet Union began to slow from within. Economic strain, rigid ...

Imagine waking up and your country just… doesn’t exist anymore. That’s what happened to nearly 300 million people when the Soviet Union collapsed. Their flag vanished, their savings evaporated, and ...

News that Nicolas Maduro was in U.S. custody within hours and without any American casualties did not simply change the ...

With no ceasefire following Friday's U.S.–Russia talks in Alaska, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna (Eesti 200) reiterated that the root cause of Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine is regime ...

A tide of reform spread in the socialist states in the 1980s. However, just like running faces bigger risk of falling down than walking, the reforms in socialist countries are even vulnerable. The ...