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 ...

The Soviet Union’s collapse at the end of 1991, has weighed heavily on the minds of China’s leaders over the past three decades as they seek to avoid a similar fate. Observers argue its ...

Synopsis: The causes of the fall of the Soviet Union are thought to be inefficiency and the Soviet response to the Reagan Administration’s military buildup of the early 1980s. However ...

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.

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 ...