216. The 1988 Perspectives Resolution prepared the International Committee for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 with mass protests in China, followed shortly thereafter by the ...

Two former Soviet republics, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, share a complicated relationship characterized by geopolitical ...

This is a map of Turkmenistan with the Caspian Sea to the left. Gray areas are oil and gas fields, and dotted lines are pipelines. Orange circles show the 776 methane plumes seen in satellite images ...

“Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, China was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the countries concerned … The Chinese side respects the status of the ...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the start of a period ripe with political, economic, and societal changes. In many former Soviet countries, these abrupt and turbulent ...

Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...

He noted that Western ideologues contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the conflict in Ukraine is needed, among other things, to prevent Russia from becoming stronger and restoring ...

In August 1991, the Soviet empire collapsed. Yet this colossus seemed indestructible: its power had towered over the world for nearly a century. But a collapsed economy, reforms too late to avoid ...