The Soviet Union was one of the 20th century’s greatest superpowers, but beneath its surface, a silent economic crisis brewed — driven largely by its reliance on oil. This video dives into how oil ...

While the central command economy of the Soviet Union was diametrically opposed to the market liberalism of Western nations, the rapid economic development that the Soviets posted in the middle ...

The story of the Soviet computer industry is one of ambition, innovation, and eventual failure. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union sought to match, and even surpass, Western technological ...

The Soviet Union's economy collapsed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it finally dissolved in 1991. Sikorski's comments echoed a warning by the managing director of the International ...

China is now the world's second-largest economy and a rising military power. Additionally, Russian president Vladimir Putin regards the collapse of the Soviet Union as a tragedy and has attempted ...

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense ... because the Soviet civilian economy has been badly shortchanged as a result of Russia’s costly military intervention in Czechoslovakia ...

But China is not the Soviet Union. It is not an isolated command economy, nor an empire straining under the weight of its military overreach. It is a globalized, tech-powered, civilizational state ...

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to ...

By the late 1970s, the Soviet Union's economy and global influence were weakening. With the counsel of National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Soviet expert, Carter exploited these ...

Gradual democratization of the Soviet Union and the abolition of wars by ... may transform the United States into a welfare state with a planned economy. “Western and Eastern Europe will become ...

The Soviet Union was near rock bottom. Store shelves were empty, the economy wrung dry by a rapacious military machine. An army of K.G.B. agents and informers brutally crushed any public deviation ...

China will find it harder to complete its ambition of restructuring the economy around new industries. Like the Soviet Union, it risks instead becoming an example of how autocratic rule is not ...