Few moments in history shocked the world like the fall of the Soviet Union. Once a superpower commanding half the globe, the ...

Was the end of the USSR inevitable — or the result of human decisions? This video dissects the economic decay, political paralysis, and personal choices that brought down one of history’s superpowers.

Historians labor to understand the causes of World War I, a conflict whose resolution helped give rise to Nazism. Existing diplomatic alliances triggered a broader conflict following the assassination ...

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 ...

Its dual dependence on America’s digital services and Beijing’s critical mineral processing industry leaves it highly ...

While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before resuming again. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of ...

There are various reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but there is one important factor that has not been sufficiently explored. The Soviet Union in the 1980s had become increasingly ...

Eerie photos show the moment a group of polar bears took over a Soviet-era weather station, with the deadly animals now ...

"Real socialism, rather than solving the problem of freedom, often turned into a mechanism of power that deepened it. Systems established in the name of the dictatorship of the proletariat reinforced ...

Yet another prominent Russian has fallen to his death from a window in Moscow. Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, who headed the ...