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 ...

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 ...

1. Oil prices and economic inefficiency “The date of the USSR’s collapse is well known. It’s not the day of the Belovezha Accords, nor the August coup [of 1991]. It was Sept. 13, 1985 when ...

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.