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

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 ...

Then, on Dec. 8, at Belovezhskaya Pushcha, a hunting resort outside the city of Brest in Belarus, Yeltsin and the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus declared the Soviet Union dissolved and formed a ...

Gorbachev served as General Secretary from 1985, adding the title of President of the Soviet Union in 1990. He resigned in August 1991, and the following day, the Soviet Union was formally dissolved.

Dec. 25, 1991 - Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union, which is formally dissolved the following day. Reporting by Mark Trevelyan in London Editing by Matthew Lewis ...

The Soviet Union was dissolved a day later. “I see myself as a man who started the reforms that were necessary for the country and for Europe and the world,” Gorbachev told The Associated ...

The Soviet Union was the “big brother” and “China’s tomorrow” during the golden decade of the 1950s. However, it soon became China’s ideological archrival and security threat following ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who brought in reforms credited with ending the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Moscow’s Centra… ...

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.

Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union before it dissolved. He ruled as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 and was the country's only ...

Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t make any pronouncements on the war in Ukraine, which, it turned out, overlapped with the last six months of his life: He died this week at the age of 91. But the goal of ...