"A persuasive way of understanding the collapse of Communism in Europe and the Soviet Union is to think of nineteenth-…"

"The list of NATO's deficiencies was long, including, after the Soviet Union's 1991 collapse, the feckless abandonment…"

"Nothing better illustrated the realities of the Soviet collapse than the fate of Sergei Krikalyev, a Soviet cosmonaut…"

"The most obvious fact of the Soviet collapse is that it happened through natural causes. The Soviet Union was not, li…"

"The Marxist prediction that capitalism would ultimately collapse and be replaced by socialism (Khrushchev’s tactless …"

"Gorbachev was never willing to leap directly to a market economy in the way that Deng Xiaoping had done. He reminded …"

"I firmly came out in favor of the independence of nations and sovereignty for the republics. At the same time, I supp…"

"Fate had it that when I found myself at the head of the state it was already clear that all was not well in the count…"

"However, work of historic significance has been accomplished. The totalitarian system which deprived the country of a…"

"The rush of events in the Soviet Union, Germany, eastern Europe and China in the late 1980s and the very early 1990s …"