In his memoirs, Gorbachev expressed bitterness about the 1991 agreement, which doomed his desperate attempt to save the USSR from collapse by trying to negotiate a new “union treaty” among the ...

“America’s current retreat from its engagements around the world — from gutting USAid to abandoning European allies — ...

The collapse of the USSR was a product of the unravelling of the post-war order and the intensification of the fundamental contradiction of capitalism between world economy and the bankrupt nation ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

The most dramatic event during this period for people in the West was the fall of the Berlin Wall. While the communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed, the Soviet Union did not intervene.

America’s current retreat from world power recalls that of the Soviet Union after 1988. Is the U.S. poised to collapse like the Soviet Union did?

I was working as a tailor up until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, I tried to keep my business going but it was very difficult as the economic system fell apart, the political system ...