Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

"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 United States.

Historical empires like Spain, Britain, and the Soviet Union have experienced economic decline through seven identifiable ...

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — The world held its breath 30 ...

A busy week for Mikhail Gorbachev, from a sweeping peace initiative to the Soviet Union’s final death knell. In Washington, political drama unfolds as Bill Clinton resists calls to resign amid an ...

The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...

A Kremlin propagandist has disparaged President Donald Trump by comparing his actions with those made by the leadership of the Soviet Union before its collapse. Karen Shakhnazarov, a film director who ...

Long life, Martin Luther King once remarked, has its place but not for him; he was assassinated soon after in 1968. It was the same year that Robert F Kennedy, the man who predicted that a "Negro" ...

News that Nicolas Maduro was in U.S. custody within hours and without any American casualties did not simply change the ...