Uncover the factors behind the USSR’s economic collapse, including command economy flaws, ineffective reforms, and ...
Lauren Yee’s play at Signature Theatre finds dark humor in the tumultuous time after the end of the U.S.S.R.
This documentary traces the collapse of stability in Tajikistan as the Soviet Union unraveled. Long-standing regional ...
This event brings together world-leading academics and practitioners to investigate the immediate ramifications of the end of the Soviet order, education and social mobility, and a look at the ...
A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology ...
Sergei Krikalev watched the Soviet Union collapse from 200 miles above Earth, unsure when he would ever come home. Then, ...
In 1983, the construction of the Juragua nuclear power plant, which has two 440-megawatt reactors near the Caribbean Sea in Cuba, began with the cooperation of the Soviet Union. However, as of 2023, ...
On Christmas night, 1991, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev resigned and relinquished his powers, including the nuclear codes, to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The flag of the USSR that flew over ...
Thirty years ago the Soviet Union collapsed, bringing an epoch which opened up in 1917 to an end. But why did this 'superpower' implode? Was it inevitable? And what impact has the end of the Soviet ...
The UK is experiencing socio-economic conditions reminiscent of a Soviet-style collapse. Sudden loss of trust in institutions ...