It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...

Drawing on graph paper with blue grid background and a black outline of the Soviet Union at lower right with rectilinear border added in graphite. Above, four additional representations of the Soviet ...

Map of NATO countries NATO has 31 member countries, highlighted in dark blue, and is expected to have Sweden, in light blue, join the alliance. ... After the Soviet Union broke up, ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose rise to power in the Soviet Union set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and ended the Cold War that had threatened the ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized control came crashing down in 1991. This resulted in redrawn borders and ...