Is The Cold War Really Over?

The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of ...
Townhall

Putin Between the Ruins of the Soviet Union and the Dying Russian Federation

The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...
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The cosmonaut who watched the Soviet Union collapse from space, Sergei Krikalev’s Mir mission

During a long mission aboard the Mir space station, Sergei Krikalev witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union from orbit, leaving him effectively stranded in space as his country vanished below. His ...
Wall Street Journal

How the Soviet Union's Collapse Has Driven Putin

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 ...
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Gorbachev, who led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, dies at 91

Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. [AP photo/Boris Yurcheko, File] MOSCOW (AP) - Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual ...
Orange County Register

34 years since the fall of the Evil Empire

It was a special Christmas in 1991. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. Then on Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet Union’s bloody hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered for the last time from the roof of ...
World Socialist Web Site

Jochen Hellbeck’s “World Enemy Number 1, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews”

The German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck has written an important book. In clear and engaging language and with great empathy for the Soviet people, it deliberately opposes the efforts to ...