216. The 1988 Perspectives Resolution prepared the International Committee for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 with mass protests in China, followed shortly thereafter by the ...

Why did the USSR collapse? In this video, we analyze the internal and external pressures that led to the Soviet Union's downfall. From economic stagnation to political unrest and the influence of ...

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the world had to navigate the gray areas of a new geoplitics. Against this background, on February 11, 1992, an underwater collision highlighted the ...

This is a map of Turkmenistan with the Caspian Sea to the left. Gray areas are oil and gas fields, and dotted lines are pipelines. Orange circles show the 776 methane plumes seen in satellite images ...

Mikhail Zygar’s latest book revisits the figures who defined the USSR’s last years and the turbulent decades that followed ...

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 ...