This Week in History: From missing monks to Soviet standoffs - Explore how major events between 23 and 29 March were captured ...

The caldron in Washington today reminds me of something. The collapse of the Soviet system. Nearly 30 years ago. It collapsed under the weight of corruption. And because government did not deliver ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for ...

Western consumer culture has spread quickly throughout much of the former Soviet Union since the collapse of communism. But in areas, the old ways of doing business remain. In this part of the program ...

Back in the old Soviet Union, the political joke was the principal underground conduit of political opinion. One that made the rounds soon after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985 posed this ...

MOSCOW -- Thousands of Muscovites linked arms outside the Russian Parliament building on Aug. 19, 1991, and helped foil a coup against then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup was over three ...

In the waning years of the Soviet Union, most of the citizens in that cold tyranny could see that their system was irredeemably broken. But for the most part, they marched through the same routines, ...

The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ...