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

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.

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 ...

Vladimir Putin's most recent rhetoric once again spotlights the degree to which the Russian president is driven by resentment over the Soviet Union's collapse. The 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union ...

While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before resuming again. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of ...

There are various reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but there is one important factor that has not been sufficiently explored. The Soviet Union in the 1980s had become increasingly ...

Defence Minister Andrei Belousov informed Putin that recent US remarks and actions made it "advisable to prepare for ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his top officials on Wednesday to draft proposals for a possible test of nuclear ...