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

The aspiring part wants to see their desires as already realized, at least in part. That’s why opinion polls in Ukraine often paint a picture of national consensus. More and more Ukrainians identify ...

“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 ...

Lithuania became the first country to declare independence from the Soviet Union on March 11, 1991. Here is a quiz on ...

Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two of the key signatories of the dissolution treaty, a witness to the ensuing ...

The right to self-determination, enunciated about 100 years ago by US President Woodrow Wilson in his famous 14 Points ...

A decade after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991, some transition economies are performing far better than others. A recent World Bank study finds that poor incentives for the creation ...

Hear from two of those leaders Show more In December 1991 the leaders of three Soviet ... By the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no more. Dina Newman has spoken ...