This event brings together world-leading academics and practitioners to investigate the immediate ramifications of the end of the Soviet order, education and social mobility, and a look at the ...

Twenty-five years ago today the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned. And the next day, with the stroke of a pen, the USSR was dissolved. As the 15 constituent republics went their separate ...

The Chechens were the most active opponents of Russia’s nineteenth century conquest of the Caucasus — and have resisted foreign occupation ever since. The demise of the Soviet Union gave Chechens ...

Slow growth and falling foreign investment have helped bring the fast-paced boom years of the 1990s and 2000s to an end in China, posing a major challenge to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. While it marks ...

Documents show desperate final Soviet leader fighting to retain power. Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed ...

When the Soviet Union crumbled, so did many old ways of thinking. In an effort to leave their communist past behind them, many countries of the former USSR bloc designed buildings that were bold, ...

Haunted by the collapse of the Soviet Union, President Putin made the surprise choice of an economist for defense minister. In the 1980s, out of control military spending — for the Soviet occupation ...