This 19th century map was drawn up with no regard to the ... which Europeans had so ruthlessly put to work in Africa. The Soviet Union was ideologically committed to helping newly independent ...

Hitler's fascist forces had just been defeated in the Second World War. And the Soviet Union had been an ally to the West during the war. But this event would help fuel anti-Communist sentiments ...

A decade after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991, some transition economies are performing far better than others. A recent World Bank study finds that poor incentives for the creation ...