On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the USSR. The following day, the Supreme Soviet recognized the collapse of the Soviet Union and disbanded itself. Fifteen…
657 viewsRobin Laird, researcher for the Institute for Defense Analysis, discussed the “New Europe” following the breakup of the Soviet Union and the unification of Germany in a seminar sponsored by…
52 viewsProfessor Thomas Remington, a political science professor at Emory University, presented a lecture on how the coup in the Soviet Union affected political institutions within the Soviet…
56 viewsBlair Ruble, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute and author of the book “Leningrad: Shaping a Soviet City” discussed this week’s failed coup in the Soviet Union. The coup…
27 viewsThe Woodrow Wilson Center sponsored this discussion of Soviet policy in Latin America under perestroika. Sergei Tagor, a research Fellow at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and Cole Blasher,…
65 viewsThe assistant secretary of state discussed human rights changes in the Soviet Union under perestroika.
134 viewsPanel discussion on Eastern Europe’s future and changing identities in USSR.
53 viewsThis is a discussion on “Politics of Ethnic Processes in the USSR”
49 viewsProfessor Ronald Suny, Director of the Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan, spoke of class and nationality in the Russian Revolution. Professor Suny answered audience…
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