Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the great cinematic accomplishments of the 21st century, a stunning epic that culminated in a well-deserved Best Picture win for The Return of the ...

This story originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Dec. 9, 1991. MOSCOW — It was the last empire. The Soviet Union — the vast territory stretching from the Baltic Sea and Finland in the west, to the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...

The Soviet Communist Party’s fall from power, just short of its 74th anniversary as the ruling force in the Soviet Union, is strangely like its rise to dominance in the October Revolution of 1917. It ...

ver the last decade and a half, an unprecedented initiative has taken place in the Former Soviet Union (F.S.U.). In all 15 republics that made up the U.S.S.R., the introduction of Western-style ...

The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of ...

General Dmitry Yazov, the last Soviet marshal and a member of the so-called Gang of Eight that tried to take over the collapsing Soviet Union in 1991, has died in Moscow at the age of 95. The Russian ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union for almost seven years, stepped down from office on 25 December 1991. He announced his resignation live on television, as the Soviet Union was replaced by ...

Valentin S. Pavlov, a former Soviet prime minister who helped lead the failed hard-line coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died, Russian news reports said Monday. He was 66. Pavlov died ...

Tanks on Kalininsky Prospekt in August 1991 (Courtesy Photo) August 21, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Former Soviet states this week mark the 16th anniversary of the 1991 putsch that triggered the collapse of the ...

Individual liberty and representative democracy as complementary forms of personal and political self-government are precious aspects of shared social life. Given the political and economic events ...