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 ...

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 ...

This video examines what happened to the nations of the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. We trace the transition from communist rule to democracy and market economies, ...

This video provides a fast-paced overview of the dissolution of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1992. It highlights that for a ...

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) - ...

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 ...

Mikhail Gorbachev addressed a broad audience on May 14—eighteen days after the catastrophe at Unit 4. In his speech, ...

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