The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended decades of Cold War tension and reshaped global politics. But what if the USSR ...

The Soviet Union's economy was as influential as it was controversial. Discover the rise and fall of this historic system and the lessons it offers for modern economies. House passes bill to avert ...

While the central command economy of the Soviet Union was diametrically opposed to the market liberalism of Western nations, the rapid economic development that the Soviets posted in the middle ...

This time the Soviet Union intends to achieve the prewar level of industry twice as fast. The restoration of the national economy in the western parts of the U.S.S.R. started immediately after their ...

For most of its seven decades in existence, the Soviet Union was a socialist country with a command economy. Government administrators decided which goods to produce to meet the needs of the ...

The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, following a series of economic and political problems and broke up into 15 independent countries. Prior to the establishment of the Soviet Union, Russia was a ...

Russia's economic conditions are similar to the Soviet Union's, the IMF's deputy manager said. The country is spending heavily, while consumption has seen a considerable pullback. Wartime ...

With an economy only about 1/3 the size of the United States, the Soviet Union engaged in an arms race during the Cold War that prevented them from investing as much as they should have in ...