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 ...

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 ...

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

One energy expert compares Venezuela's socialist upheaval to the Berlin Wall collapse as the alleged narco-terrorist leader ...

Ames had been head of the Soviet branch in the CIA's counterintelligence group and gave the Kremlin the names of dozens of ...

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, ...

We had him in Detroit before the Russians knew he was gone." On July 23, 1990, Sergei Fedorov, 5 months shy of his 21st ...

1652 The leader of the first Dutch settlers, Jan van Riebeeck writes in his diary that the first two pounds of butter have been churned at the Cape. 1915 The German gunboat, the Kingani, is captured ...

Cuba is navigating another delicate moment in its recent history after the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by ...

In a slip of the tongue, the opposition leader said Ukraine was illegally occupied by “the USSR”, which was formally dissolved over 34 years ago.