The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of one of the most powerful empires of the 20th century. In this video, we explore the key causes from economic stagnation and political reform ...

According to a survey dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the referendum on the preservation of the USSR, 57% of Russians express regret over the collapse of the Soviet Union and believe that it ...

When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was created in 1917, many academic economists, including those in the United States, believed or claimed to believe that socialism—which entails ...

And at five minutes to 7 p.m. on Christmas Day 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev walked through the Kremlin into a wood-paneled room that was jammed with reporters. He was there to sign a decree relinquishing ...

216. The 1988 Perspectives Resolution prepared the International Committee for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 with mass protests in China, followed shortly thereafter by the ...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was, at least from a distance, a moment of euphoria. But there’s little joy in the lives of the young Russians we meet in “Mother Russia,” a dark, frequently ...

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