Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”  President Ronald Reagan’s famous 1987 speech at the Berlin Wall is, for better or worse ...
This video provides a fast-paced overview of the dissolution of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1992. It highlights that for a ...
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 ...
Anton Kobyakov emphasized that a proper legal assessment of the USSR's dissolution is essential to fully understand current geopolitical developments MOSCOW, May 21. /TASS/. In 1991, the dissolution ...
The commemorative day on May 8 in Germany is being used ever more shamelessly as an opportunity to falsify history and create ...
Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...
In August 1991, the Soviet empire collapsed. Yet this colossus seemed indestructible: its power had towered over the world for nearly a century. But a collapsed economy, reforms too late to avoid ...