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 ...
As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against ...
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked a seismic shift in global politics. This documentary analyzes the key causes ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, ...
Twenty-five years ago today the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned. And the next day, with the stroke of a pen, the USSR was dissolved. As the 15 constituent republics went their separate ...
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 ...