Exit Stalin — reforms and repression in the postwar, pre-collapse USSR

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...
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What happened to the Eastern Bloc after Soviet collapse?

This video examines what happened to the nations of the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. We trace the transition from communist rule to democracy and market economies, ...
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Yegor Ligachev, Gorbachev’s No. 2 Who Turned Foe, Is Dead at 100

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order. Yegor K. Ligachev. Kremlin watchers ...