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

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

On the night of 19 January the Soviet army occupied the cities of Azerbaijan and an unprecedented massacre took place ...

The Soviet Union’s collapse was the result of long-term internal pressures rather than a sudden defeat. This video explores ...

Europe never recovered from its postwar calamity. Trump is trying to make them do so.

Venezuela, under both Chavez and Maduro, is a collectivist hellhole, where the state seized the means of production, ...

There is no opposition capable of igniting change from the inside. The intricate barter system that Cuba and Venezuela ...

In October Moldovans will vote on making EU membership a constitutional goal. A 'yes' vote would put the pro-Western ...

Moldovan President Maia Sandu has said she would vote in favour of unification with neighbouring European Union and NATO ...

Since the Arab world broke away from the Ottoman Empire and appeared on the political stage in the early 20th century, the ...

Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them.

This month, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago is scheduled to announce whether the hands of ...