The story of the Soviet computer industry is one of ambition, innovation, and eventual failure. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union sought to match, and even surpass, Western technological ...

From industrial juggernaut to economic disaster, the Soviet Union’s economy tells the dramatic ... stagnation, and the downfall of an empire. Hawaii's governor signs new hotel tax legislation ...

LONDON — Immediately after Josef V. Stalin died in March 1953, the new leaders of the Soviet Union, preoccupied until then with strategies for their own self-preservation, woke up to the fact ...

MOSCOW – During his eight years as leader of the free world, Ronald Reagan evolved from a fierce Cold Warrior who called the Soviet Union an ... for hastening the downfall of the Soviet ...

Once inside, other diners gape as Mikhail Gorbachev — the last leader of the Soviet Union, who helped end the ... reversed under Putin. The pizza memes live on, though. The commercial opens ...

But what was the Soviet Union, which countries were in it ... Soviet troops and was one of the main factors in the USSR’s downfall. Gorbachev also relaxed the state’s grip on the economy ...