Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'The Dark Side of the Earth' on the fall of Soviet Union and the rise of Putin. Winter blues are hitting earlier this ...
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 ...
Soviet New Years, a ritual that survived the country’s dissolution, may be in danger of slipping away.
Documents show desperate final Soviet leader fighting to retain power. Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed ...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a massive country that spanned Europe ...
The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of ...
For those who lived under it, the Soviet Union’s “union” was a lie, masking occupation, terror and lost sovereignty.
Imagine waking up and your country just… doesn’t exist anymore. That’s what happened to nearly 300 million people when the ...