You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

Pepsi's historic deal with the Soviet Union involved exchanging soda for vodka and later acquiring Soviet warships, marking a ...

Becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union By the 1980s the Soviet economy was in drastic need of reform. In 1985, after three elderly leaders died in quick succession, Gorbachev, a protégé ...

HEIGHT 611 is the mountainside where locals watched a blazing red ball flying half-a-mile above ground suddenly plunge to Earth in the 1980s. The strike – dubbed “Russia’s ...

Reasons for the Cold War Soviet policy in Eastern Europe The Cuban Crisis Why the USA lost the war in Vietnam Managing the Cold War 1962-85 ...

HEIGHT 611 is the mountainside where locals watched a blazing red ball flying half-a-mile above ground suddenly plunge to Earth in the 1980s ... UFO - was set upon by Soviet scientists, who ...

dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of government institutions and freedom of information. Hours after British Prime ...