Though the Soviet Union is known in the U.S. for its harsh authoritarian regime, human rights violations, and poor economic conditions, there is a wave of nostalgia among many Russians for the ...

On April 8, 1918, while speaking at a meeting of the Bolshevik faction of the All-Union Central Executive committee, ... 1924, the new design for the Soviet red flag was established, ...

Mr. Schmemann is a member of the editorial board. On Dec. 25, 1991, at 7:32 p.m., the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin, and the pre-revolutionary Russian flag of white, blue and red ...

“Something similar happened in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s,” wrote Peter Pomerantsev in the Atlantic. “The system seized up as people gave up on it, leading to elites changing course.

On Dec. 26, 1991, the Soviet Union officially ceased to exist. Its flag, with its famous hammer and sickle, was lowered outside the Kremlin at 7:32 p.m. Within a half-hour, the red, white and blue ...

To understand the friction between Russia and Ukraine, it's important to go back to 1991. Exactly 30 years ago this weekend, the Soviet Union formally dissolved and broke up into 15 separate nations.

The Soviet Union’s death spiral reached its crescendo in December 1991, ... all Soviet republics had agreed that the Soviet Union would be ... and the Soviet flag was taken down at the Kremlin.

The flags were gone, and so was the Soviet Union. Friction from 1991 until today If this was just a history story, we could note the 30th anniversary of the Soviet collapse this weekend and stop ...