The International Perspectives prepared the IC for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 ... Soviet Union and its autarkic national economy foreshadowed the transformation or ...

The Retro Museum has dozens of motorcycles, which seem to be grouped near cars made in the same country (hence this ...

European Consortium for Political Research Extremism and Democracy Newsletter, e-Extreme, reviewer Juri Shabajev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Division "Mark Beissinger's book is the most ...

The end of the Cold War By the beginning of the 1980s, the Soviet Union faced several challenges. The taking down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 kick-started the fall of the Soviet Union.

In Dresden, East Germany he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later, Putin and 800,000 KGB officers were left shipwrecked.