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3 days ago · Collapse of the Soviet Union, sequence of events that led to the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. on December 31, 1991. The reforms implemented by President Mikhail Gorbachev and the backlash against them hastened the demise of the Soviet state.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union.
4 days ago · The extracts relating to the 'Cold Peace' between 1945 and 1953 combine analysis of the Soviet Union's international position with Stalin's attempts to re-impose orthodoxy at home by imposing greater control over nationalities, science and art.
1 day ago · The collapse of the Soviet Union, and the breakdown of economic ties which followed led to a severe economic crisis and catastrophic fall in the standards of living in the 1990s in post-Soviet states and the former Eastern bloc. Even before Russia's financial crisis of 1998, Russia's GDP was half of what it had been in the early 1990s.
2 days ago · Vladislav Zubok, Collapse provides a rare insight into the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the event that defined the history of the multipolar world. the brief history of the multipolar world 1989-2008
1 day ago · In Russia, if the fall of the Soviet Union brought a new wave of Westernization in the 1990s, the pendulum soon swung back to anti-Westernism as Russians felt the palpable effects of the loss of military and economic power, along with the pains of integration into the system of global capitalism.
(20/52) Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On The West - Catherine Belton | An interesting look into how Russia of today grew out after the collapse of the Soviet Union and it's effects on the Western world
