The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of one of the most powerful empires of the 20th century. In this ...

The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...

The Soviet Union ceased to exist as a nation 30 years ago today. On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union. The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowere… ...

Nonetheless, for those of us who were fortunate enough to be in Moscow in August 1991, it remains in our minds as an unforgettable historical moment when the first and longest-lived of the twentieth ...

On June 22, 1941 – 50 years ago this Saturday – Hitler’s “Operation Barbarossa” began: 3 million German troops invaded the Soviet Union. The “Great Patriotic War,” as Communists like ...

Even after the summit, the U.S. would not recognize Ukraine’s independence until Dec. 25, the day Gorbachev formally resigned, making the end of the Soviet Union an incontrovertible reality.

MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991, Gorbachev tried to revive the moribund communist state by introducing polices of economic and political openness, known as ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who played a pivotal role in the end of the Cold War, has died at the age of 91 in Moscow.

The Soviet collapse was not Mr. Gorbachev’s goal, but it may be his greatest legacy. It brought to an end a seven-decade experiment born of Utopian idealism that led to some of the bloodiest ...

It was to be called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. On Dec. 30, 1922, ... in the resort city of Yalta in Crimea in February 1945 to plan for the end of the war.