Will the US collapse like the Soviet Union did?
"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...
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The Economy of the Soviet Union - Rise, Control and Collapse
The Soviet Union built one of the most rapidly growing economies in history, but it also suffered one of the most dramatic ...
Wilson Center7d
Ukraine Between 1991 and 2022: The Problem of the Blank Canvas
By 2016, the blank canvas of 1991 was no longer blank. It contained rival Ukrainian oligarchs, Russian interference, the war, ...
Russia Bombs Ukraine’s Gas System But Experts Say Russia May Implode
The economic sanctions and boycotts of Russian oil and gas must persist—and why Trump must set aside his pride and support ...
The Conversation2d
Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did?
“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...
Ukraine once had the world’s 3rd largest nuclear arsenal; but gave up its weapons for this reason
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited the worlds third-largest nuclear arsenal. However, the country chose to ...
The Irish Times10d
Real question is why Trump wants to help Putin reverse the Soviet Union’s collapse
Putin has made significant progress in his quest to reverse the collapse of the Soviet Union, which he called “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century”. Trump is aiding and ...
‘Repeating the same mistakes over and over’: How U.S. policy led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (Ret.) argues in a new book that the United States’ “crisis management” approach to dealing with Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union has failed to deter Russian ...
A Brief History of the Soviet Deserters Who Aided Hitler
Hundreds of thousands of foreigners served in the Wehrmacht, most famously the Vlasov Army.
Wilson Center4d
Energy and the Fall of Détente
Drawing on newly declassified documents that reveal the central role of energy in the unraveling of détente, Guy Laron explores how escalating energy crises in the 1970s transformed US-Soviet energy ...
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan end decades-long border dispute with land swap deal
Kyrgyzstan announced Thursday it would exchange territories disputed with Tajikistan since the fall of the Soviet Union, ending a decades-long spat between the Central Asian neighbours ...