The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

How I Dissolved the Soviet Union With the Stroke of a Pen. Published Dec 14, 2016 at 1:20 AM EST Updated Dec 19, 2016 at 2:16 AM EST.

On Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved. Mikhail Gorbachev, who was the leader of the USSR, stepped down, and Boris Yeltsin became president of a newly independent Russia.

Twenty years ago today, on December 8, 1991, a group of Soviet leaders got together in a house in snowy Belarus to declare the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The 45-year standoff between the West and the U.S.S.R. ended when the Soviet Union dissolved. Some say another could be starting as tensions with Russia rise.

After 36 years, the Warsaw Pact — a military alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites — was effectively dissolved on this day in 1991 as Soviet military commanders ...

Within just a few weeks, all Soviet republics had agreed that the Soviet Union would be dissolved. The official announcement came on Russian TV on Dec. 21.

Metallica's juggernaut of a concert in Moscow, in 1991. The Soviet Union was in crisis. A month before Metallica's show, a group of eight high-ranking officials calling themselves the State Committee ...

The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, four years after the last whale was killed for commercial purposes. Leviathan was slaughtered in the transiting shadow of the Soviet leviathan’s rise and fall .

He led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991. ... On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev announced his resignation just days before the Soviet Union dissolved.