External changes, including the end of the Cold War, helped lead to the ending of apartheid. Gorbachev played a major role in that process.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev played a significant role in bringing down the wall between eastern and western Europe.
Mikhail Gorbachev died at 91 on Aug. 30, 2022. A historian of the Soviet era assesses his impact and the consequences of his failed attempts to reform state socialism.
Monica Attard witnessed the death throes of the USSR – and the birth of a brave new world – as the ABC’s Russia foreign correspondent. In 2022, a return to an Orwellian regime looms.
Like other tragic reformers in history, Gorbachev’s chief legacy is to remind us about what might have been, rather than what subsequently transpired.
Russian artists are finding an artistic home in Kirkenes, a small Norwegian town 15 kilometres from the Russian border.
Aug. 24, 2022 marked both the 31st anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union and the six-month mark of war. As they have for more than three decades, Ukrainians showed resilience.
With a formidable Kremlinologist in charge and Donald Trump out of the presidential picture, has the CIA regained its influence amid the ‘new cold war’?
In much of eastern Europe historical memory of communist rule has been brought into sharp focus by the war in Ukraine.
The Soviet Union was a latecomer to industrial whaling, but it slaughtered whales by the thousands once it started and radically under-reported its take to international monitors.
During the Cold War, Russia’s refusal to allow Jews to leave the country reflected its political aims. The same is likely true today, a Jewish studies scholar explains.
Russia’s national history and origin story remain unclear.
The United States still sees itself as the world’s one and only superpower… The reality is now quite different: for several years, the country has been undergoing a slow but inevitable decline.
While there are good reasons not to exaggerate these events, the bad news is these incidents are almost certain to continue. But we shouldn’t frame them as if we’re in the brink of war.
US plans to add more combat-ready forces in eastern Europe to send a strong message to Russia.
For hundreds of years, Russia has elevated its political leaders as figureheads. That’s part of what makes its propaganda so convincing.
Russia’s war in Ukraine calls for drawing a line between power and luck. Putin, who was widely considered among the most powerful people in the world, may have been simply lucky.
Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
Studies on Ukraine going as far back as the late 1990s and early 2000s showed that the country’s population was connecting less and less with Russia.
The West’s new approach to Russia – bar it from international organizations, restrict international trade, prevent further military moves – looks just like how it treated Russia in the 20th century.
Principais colaboradores
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Professor of Military History, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida
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Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
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Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
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Professor, Russian and East European History, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of History, Gonzaga University
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Professor of History at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of History, Clarkson University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School
