In his memoirs, Gorbachev expressed bitterness about the 1991 agreement, which doomed his desperate attempt to save the USSR from collapse by trying to negotiate a new “union treaty” among the ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he had pulled Russia back from the edge of the abyss after the chaos which ...

The collapse of the USSR was a product of the unravelling of the post-war order and the intensification of the fundamental contradiction of capitalism between world economy and the bankrupt nation ...

The Soviet Union's economy was as influential as it was controversial. Discover the rise and fall of this historic system and ...

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TASS/. Tectonic processes underway in the world and the Ukrainian conflict originated as early as at the time of collapse of the USSR, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry ...

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which dwelled on the theme of imperial overreach and concluded with a look at the Soviet Union and the United States – the two great powers of the time.

The movie “The Matrix” gave us the “red pill” and the “blue pill.” The red wakes you up to reality; the blue keeps you indoctrinated. Internet culture then invented a black pill. Those who take it ...

After covering the mechanism of collapse, Chadayev turned to comparing the USSR and Yugoslavia with the European Union, where national parliamentary systems have been degrading, while the ...

Key players in the fall of the USSR, including the signatories to the dissolution treaty, recall the momentous events of December 1991. Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist ...

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 ...