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Why the Soviet Union came apart from within

The Soviet Union’s collapse was the result of long-term internal pressures rather than a sudden defeat. This video explores ...
For those who lived under it, the Soviet Union’s “union” was a lie, masking occupation, terror and lost sovereignty.
The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of ...
Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'The Dark Side of the Earth' on the fall of Soviet Union and the rise of Putin. The rise of ‘finfluencers:’ Can you ...
Documents show desperate final Soviet leader fighting to retain power. Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed ...
In 1950, a 22-year-old émigré with an unpronounceable name living in a frigid Canadian city wrote a master’s thesis that predicted the fall of the Soviet Union — and helped to set in motion the ...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a massive country that spanned Europe ...
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 ...