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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russia's central bank has warned Kremlin policymakers that the United States and OPEC are capable of flooding the oil market. This move could provoke a repeat of the protracted price collapse of the ...

ANASEULI, Georgia (Reuters) -When Lika Megreladze was a child, life in her native western Georgian region of Guria revolved around tea. Her mother worked for decades as a scientist at the Soviet Union ...

MINSK, 25 June (BelTA) – After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO's existence was no longer justified, historian Yevgeny Spitsyn said in the latest episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized control came crashing down in 1991. This resulted in redrawn borders and ...

This article was first published in the State of Faith newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Monday night. When I was growing up in the Soviet Union, religion was viewed ...

Historians labor to understand the causes of World War I, a conflict whose resolution helped give rise to Nazism. Existing diplomatic alliances triggered a broader conflict following the assassination ...