Is The Cold War Really Over?

The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of ...
World Socialist Web Site

The Dissolution of the Soviet Union

216. The 1988 Perspectives Resolution prepared the International Committee for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 with mass protests in China, followed shortly thereafter by the ...
Orange County Register

34 years since the fall of the Evil Empire

It was a special Christmas in 1991. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. Then on Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet Union’s bloody hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered for the last time from the roof of ...
London Review of Books

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Late Soviet Spiritualism

The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ...
Dark Space Official on MSN

The cosmonaut who watched the Soviet Union collapse from space, Sergei Krikalev’s Mir mission

During a long mission aboard the Mir space station, Sergei Krikalev witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union from orbit, leaving him effectively stranded in space as his country vanished below. His ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Mother Russia’ Review: A Comedy of Soviet Collapse

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was, at least from a distance, a moment of euphoria. But there’s little joy in the lives of the young Russians we meet in “Mother Russia,” a dark, frequently ...