216. The 1988 Perspectives Resolution prepared the International Committee for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 with mass protests in China, followed shortly thereafter by the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev changed the course of modern history by triggering the demise of the USSR and allowing Eastern Europe to free itself from Soviet rule, earning him accolades in the West but the scorn ...

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 ...

With the passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, an era characterized by change and reduced international tensions—from the reform and openness promised by perestroika and glasnost to the dissolution of the ...

This week marks the anniversary of both the Cold War’s nadir, the construction of the Berlin Wall, and its end with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Hugh Sidey writes on one of its lowest points, ...

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the world had to navigate the gray areas of a new geoplitics. Against this background, on February 11, 1992, an underwater collision highlighted the ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died in Moscow at the age of 91. He led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991. He has been widely credited with bringing down the Iron ...

The world leader who closed out the Cold War and brought democracy to the former Soviet Union died Tuesday at the age of 91, according to an Associated Press report citing Moscow's Central Clinical ...

Aug. 30 (UPI) --Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the former Soviet Union, has died. He was 91 years old. Gorbachev, who was the final president of the Soviet Union before it dissolved, died in ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, whose attempt to modernize communist control of the Soviet Union unleashed forces that brought down the superpower, has died, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. The Central ...