As Brezhnev-style economic stagnation returns, there’s a familiar sense in Russia of a society that has outgrown an archaic political system. Russia’s current president seems ever more ...

Russia’s state bureaucracy devotes more and more resources to anticipating and fulfilling the president’s wishes. Some of the consequences of this increasingly autocratic system are self-evident.

He had destroyed the old system without creating ... and the 15 republics of the Soviet Union became independent—though few had the resources or political shrewdness to go it alone in any ...

The USSR's weakened military and economy following World War II saw an initial boost from communist politics and economic direction. However, soon this economic system could not compete on the ...

In order to understand this history, one must understand the role the Gulag played in the Soviet system, which went beyond imprisoning criminals and political dissidents.”The Gulag served three ...

is good because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others democracy,” Putin said at an Eastern Economic Forum gathering in Russia’s ...

Back in the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union collapsed ... name is a pseudonym for a civil servant who once worked with the government on security issues — and she is now a Young Adult ...