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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'The Dark Side of the Earth' on the fall of Soviet ...

Historians labor to understand the causes of World War I, a conflict whose resolution helped give rise to Nazism. Existing diplomatic alliances triggered a broader conflict following the assassination ...

Long life, Martin Luther King once remarked, has its place but not for him; he was assassinated soon after in 1968. It was the same year that Robert F Kennedy, the man who predicted that a "Negro" ...

Georgia once produced the bulk of Soviet Union's tea Production fell by 99% after Soviet Union broke up Small producers focus on quality to revive niche industry ANASEULI, Georgia, July 18 (Reuters) - ...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was, at least from a distance, a moment of euphoria. But there’s little joy in the lives of the young Russians we meet in “Mother Russia,” a dark, frequently ...