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From 1990 to 1991, long before the era of TiVo and YouTube, avant-garde pioneer and proponent Jonas Mekas spent at least four hours and 46 minutes in front of his television with a video camera ...
A quarter-century later, the collapse of the USSR still provides a lesson for U.S.-Russia relations. By James Goldgeier Contributor Dec. 23, 2016, at 7:00 a.m. 25 Years After the Fall ...
arts entertainment Pop Culture . Gorbachev said the TV show ‘Dallas’ contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union The cultural icon delivered a taste of Western wealth behind the Iron Curtain.
Why did the USSR collapse? In this video, we analyze the internal and external pressures that led to the Soviet Union's downfall. From economic stagnation to political unrest and the influence of ...
Rather, the Soviet collapse was engendered by Boris Yeltsin, then-leader of the Russian Republic – as the largest part of the USSR – and the first president of the new Russian Federation.