The deal could give both countries reason to forestall a democratic transition
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But the hard-right could still fall short of forming a government in Saxony-Anhalt
Belarus kept old factories, jobs, and social services alive after communism. Now that model is under threat from Russia.
The US and Soviet Union never came to direct blows but fought for decades through proxies and interventions.
The grim prefab Khrushchyovka helped solve the USSR’s housing crisis after World War II.
The Red Army’s role in defeating the Nazis means Germany’s monuments won’t succumb to anger with Russia.
Grand investment plans for unproductive regions have caused empires to founder before.
We may not still be in a golden age of porn, but there have never been more stories about the people making it—and why.
Like the body of its founder Vladimir Lenin, the USSR is an unburied corpse, and some of its worst ideas could yet come back to life.
On the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union, we asked historians, economists and political analysts why it happened, and what lessons it holds for Russia’s future.