"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 United States.

The last leader of the Soviet Union has died at the age of 91. Mikhail Gorbachev passed away in Moscow on Tuesday after a long illness. He took power in 1985 and introduced sweeping reforms, but ...

Here is a timeline of some key events over the nearly seven years that Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at age 91, held power in the Soviet Union.

Despite initial rapid economic growth, the Soviet command economy eventually collapsed in 1991. Understand the events leading up to the dissolution of the USSR.

The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for the US, whose leaders have been in power for decades. One Soviet ...

How the U.S. and the Soviet Union Made Unsuccessful Attempts to Collaborate During the Space Race Could the moon landing have been an international program?

Russian President Vladimir Putin presented rings engraved with New Year's greetings to the heads of former Soviet states at a summit in St. Petersburg.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who embarked on a path of radical reform that brought about the end of the Cold War, reversed the direction of the nuclear arms race and ...

The CCP has always been invested in avoiding the fate of its Soviet counterpart. But Chinese leaders’ lessons from the Soviet collapse have changed over the years.

First there had to be some vigorous, almost forcible, prodding in the wings: the remnants of the non-Communist Liberal Democratic Party and Christian Democratic Union had to be rehearsed in their ...

Although the Republic was eventually defeated, some observers believed that the effort to defend it was a selfless undertaking of the international Communist movement and the Soviet Union -- a noble ...