The Soviet Union’s economy once stood as a symbol of strength and rapid progress. Under Stalin, the USSR industrialized at an unprecedented pace, rising from the ashes of the Russian Empire to become ...

From industrial juggernaut to economic disaster, the Soviet Union’s economy tells the dramatic story of a global superpower ...

Amid high inflation, Russia is preparing to cap prices on staple food items, a move analysts say signals a shift toward a ...

The Kremlin is said to be preparing to cap prices on some food items, but one expert warned the regulation "only pushes the ...

EADaily, . The growth of Russia's military spending is unlikely to lead it to the same economic problems that it had The ...

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...

Chris Miller talked about his book [The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR], in which he discusses why the Soviet economy collapsed in the late ...

For Vladimir Putin, Russians’ appetite for the vegetable has become problematic, however. Shortages have pushed up prices by 167pc over the past year, the biggest rise of any food.

Russia's economy is becoming increasingly primitive as its war in Ukraine drags on, and the repercussions could push it down the same path the Soviet Union endured three decades ago, according to ...