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 ...

While George F Kennan, the architect of US Containment policy, lived beyond 100 years to see his strategy succeed, it was Carter who laid the foundation of the actual collapse 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.

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.

Mr Nazarbayev came to power in 1989 as first secretary of the ... the only man to lead the country since it emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, has resigned.