Many people might recall that back in 2005, Vladimir Putin famously said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century. In an interview with a German TV ...

Instead, they ended up toppling an empire. In retrospect, the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) had happened slowly, the rot of corruption, oppression and secrecy ...

Fewer than six years elapsed between the meltdown at Chernobyl and the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union—six years ... the Soviet state and led to its collapse? Gorbachev’s laudable ...

Despite the hostility, China viewed the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the global communist movement and an alarming sign for itself. Since the Soviet collapse in 1991 ...

The Soviet Union makes no attempt to intervene as its satellite regimes fall. December 1989 - Gorbachev and U.S. President George H.W. Bush, at a summit in Malta, hail the end of the Cold War.

They were afraid to let it go," said Zubok, the author of "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union." The Soviet government in those days was a subject of ridicule, Zubok said. "When people began to ...

For those born since the collapse of the Soviet Union, it’s hard to understand the degree to which the Cold War cast a pall on the international scene. The Soviet Union lasted nearly 70 years ...

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...