It was years in the making, but when it actually came, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 occurred suddenly. In the ...

"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.

In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It marked the end of an experiment that lasted almost a century testing the premise that godless secularization, turning control of people's lives over to other ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed on Christmas Day in 1991, a wave of euphoria washed over the West. Barely two years had elapsed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and suddenly, the Cold War was over.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hardline communists opposed to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms staged a coup in August 1991, but the putsch failed two days later and ultimately hastened the collapse of ...

In August 1991, the Soviet empire collapsed. Yet this colossus seemed indestructible: its power had towered over the world for nearly a century. But a collapsed economy, reforms too late to avoid ...

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 ...

The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of freedom and an imperial obsession with imposing communism on every corner ...

November 8, 2025: Russian leader Vladimir Putin believes it was a mistake to break up the Soviet Union in 1991 and many Russians agree with him. The fourteen new nations created or revived when the ...