Was the end of the USSR inevitable — or the result of human decisions? This video dissects the economic decay, political paralysis, and personal choices that brought down one of history’s superpowers.

Julia Ioffe’s much-anticipated memoir and history of Russia offers an original take on America’s long-time adversary ...

The International Documentary Film Festival will be held in Jihlava, Czech Republic, from October 24 to November 2, Azernews ...

MOSCOW — Former President Mikhail Gorbachev said Friday that the fall of the Soviet Union, which he helped bring about, ushered in an era of U.S. imperialism responsible for many of the world’s ...

McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. “You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

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 ...

Long life, Martin Luther King once remarked, has its place but not for him; he was assassinated soon after in 1968. It was the same year that Robert F Kennedy, the man who predicted that a “Negro” ...

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 ...