Twenty-five years ago today the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned. And the next day, with the stroke of a pen, the USSR was dissolved. As the 15 constituent republics went their separate ...

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. The rise of ‘finfluencers:’ Can you ...

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 ...

Russia's central bank has warned Kremlin policymakers that the United States and OPEC are capable of flooding the oil market. This move could provoke a repeat of the protracted price collapse of the ...

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked a seismic shift in global politics. This documentary analyzes the key causes behind its sudden collapse, including economic stagnation, the costly war in ...

Long life, Martin Luther King once remarked, has its place but not for him; he was assassinated soon after in 1968. It was the same year that Robert F Kennedy, the man who predicted that a "Negro" ...

The Cold War and its effects. Remarks delivered at the Jordan Center Workshop, New York University, November 1, 2024. My current reading of what Russia has become is based on my own experiences as an ...