In the summer of 1941, the Soviet war machine disintegrated. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, German panzers sliced through ...

Twenty-five years ago today the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned. And the next day, with the stroke of a pen, the USSR was dissolved. As the 15 constituent republics went their separate ...

This article investigates the effect of prospective secessions on economic integration and growth by examining the break-up of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Firstly, I show ...

Slow growth and falling foreign investment have helped bring the fast-paced boom years of the 1990s and 2000s to an end in China, posing a major challenge to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. While it marks ...

Historians labor to understand the causes of World War I, a conflict whose resolution helped give rise to Nazism. Existing diplomatic alliances triggered a broader conflict following the assassination ...

As a captain in the Air Force during the collapse of the Soviet Union, I participated in and witnessed our nation’s victory ...

The brutal fight for the Ukrainian city points to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ultimate aims in the war—and explains ...

Haunted by the collapse of the Soviet Union, President Putin made the surprise choice of an economist for defense minister. In the 1980s, out of control military spending — for the Soviet occupation ...

ANASEULI, Georgia (Reuters) -When Lika Megreladze was a child, life in her native western Georgian region of Guria revolved around tea. Her mother worked for decades as a scientist at the Soviet Union ...