The assault on the television centre in January 1991 definitively ruined the plans for perestroika, also giving Gorbachev the ...

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 ...

TASS, December 12. Russian President Vladimir Putin perceived the USSR dissolution as a tragedy and the collapse of historical Russia, the Russian leader said during an interview for a documentary ...

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