Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the great cinematic accomplishments of the 21st century, a stunning epic that culminated in a well-deserved Best Picture win for The Return of the ...

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked a seismic shift in global politics. This documentary analyzes the key causes ...

This story originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Dec. 9, 1991. MOSCOW — It was the last empire. The Soviet Union — the vast territory stretching from the Baltic Sea and Finland in the west, to the ...

This video examines what happened to the nations of the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. We trace ...

BLUE ASH, Ohio (WKRC) - The horrifying videos and photographs coming out of Ukraine are felt deeply by a local Tri-State family. It was February of 1991. Sasha Naiman and her parents left what was the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Russia at the time of its fall in 1991, has died, according to multiple reports citing Russian news agencies. He was 91. Gorbachev served as General Secretary from ...

Valentin S. Pavlov, a former Soviet prime minister who helped lead the failed hard-line coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, has died, Russian news reports said Monday. He was 66. Pavlov died ...

Eleven hard-liners in the Soviet government, military, Communist Party, and KGB were named in a Russian court as the organizers of the failed August 1991 coup against Soviet President Mikhail ...

On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, separating the citizens of Soviet-controlled East Berlin from the free people of West Berlin, and famously called ...

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