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The Fall of the Soviet Union: How an Empire Chose to Collapse

Was the end of the USSR inevitable — or the result of human decisions? This video dissects the economic decay, political paralysis, and personal choices that brought down one of history’s superpowers.
Daily Hampshire Gazette

Mary H. Hall: The roots of WW I and collapse of Soviet Union

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 ...
Townhall

Putin Between the Ruins of the Soviet Union and the Dying Russian Federation

The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...
Reuters

Georgia's tea growers work to revive an industry that collapsed with the Soviet Union

Georgia once produced the bulk of Soviet Union's tea Production fell by 99% after Soviet Union broke up Small producers focus on quality to revive niche industry ANASEULI, Georgia, July 18 (Reuters) - ...
insider.si.edu

Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

She Studies the Russian ‘Red Man’ Whose Bloody War Evokes Soviet Tyranny

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...