The Soviet Union built one of the most rapidly growing economies in history, but it also suffered one of the most dramatic collapses. From the 1920s to the 1980s, the USSR’s centrally planned economy ...

Russia's central bank on Friday cut its key interest rate to 20 percent -- down from a two-decade high of 21 percent -- as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the steam baths of local sanatoriums, Andropov and Gorbachev shared their fear that if reforms were not executed in the Soviet Union the economy was destined for disaster. Having completed a ...