Gorbachev resigned on 25 December 1991 and what was left of the Soviet parliament voted to dissolve the union the following day. The process began with growing unrest in the country's various constituent national republics developing into an incessant political and legislative conflict between them and the central government.

2017年11月30日 · Life expectancy actually fell in the Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s. The USSR had the highest physician-patient ratio in the world, triple the UK rate, but many medical school graduates could not perform basic tasks like reading an electrocardiogram.

When the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991, some would treat it as “a geopolitical catastrophe”. Others - the beginning of a new, brighter historical era. However, everyone is in agreement...

2024年12月16日 · Collapse of the Soviet Union, sequence of events that led to the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. on December 31, 1991. The reforms implemented by President Mikhail Gorbachev and the backlash against them hastened the demise of the Soviet state. Learn more about one of the key events of the 20th century in this article.

“Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations” has been retired and is no longer maintained. For more information, please see the full notice. After his inauguration in January 1989, George H.W. Bush did not automatically follow the policy of his predecessor, Ronald Reagan, in dealing with Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union.

Washington, D.C., December 21, 2021 – On Christmas Day 30 years ago, the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, stepped down and the hammer-and-sickle flags over the Kremlin were replaced with the red-white-and-blue of the Russian Federation.

2011年2月17日 · Professor Archie Brown explains the reasons behind the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union, and examines how such an authoritarian system could be dismantled peacefully. The speed with which...

1991年12月3日 · Today we can look back in amazement: the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus came to terms so quickly on dissolving the Soviet Union and creating the Commonwealth of Independent States that Nursultan Nazarbayev did not have time to fly from Kazakhstan to meet with them, and was forced to put on a brave face and convene a separate meeting ...

2018年4月17日 · After more than 40 years of the world seeming to teeter on the brink of a nuclear holocaust, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States had ended. What had been the world’s...

2024年12月16日 · Collapse of the Soviet Union - End of Communism, Gorbachev, Glasnost/Perestroika: The collapse of the coup led to the demise of Soviet communism. The CPSU had failed to produce a modern dynamic state and society. The economic decline of the Soviet Union during the 1980s had exacerbated ethnic …