He noted that “democracy already flourishes in countries ... observing that the Soviet Union was “not immune to … reality,” and adding, “Any system is inherently unstable that has ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

Some nations opted for democracy and quickly adapted to rapid modernization. Others were stuck with the old Soviet systems or fell into conflict. So, what exactly happened to these nations after ...

In the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime minister of the United ...

Aspirations for freedom and justice were often central to its nation-building project, but the history of democracy in contemporary independent Ukraine begins at the end of 1991, when the country ...