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According to the scholar Marcel H. Van Herpen, the end of the Soviet Union marked the end of the last European empire, and some authors called it the death of Russian colonialism and imperialism. [173] As the Soviet Union began to collapse, social disintegration and political instability fueled a surge in ethnic conflict. [174]
The Soviet newspaper industry began in the underground movements that created Pravda, meaning 'truth', which on 5 May 1912 was published as a political newspaper. Pravda did not start as a political publication, but instead was a journal of social life.
The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985–1991 (Routledge, 2016). Matlock, Jr. Jack F., Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0-679-41376-6; Oberdorfer, Don. From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983–1991 (2nd ed. Johns Hopkins UP ...
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The following publications were known as central newspapers in the Soviet Union.They were organs of the major organizations of the Soviet Union. Pravda (Пра́вда, "Truth"), the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The following lists events that happened during 1991 in the Soviet Union and Russia.. The Soviet Union had a transitional government in 1991, during the fall of communism.Every republic in the union had growing nationalism until Christmas of 1991 when Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the Soviet Union, abandoned the Union at ...
The news of the death of the last USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday got little attention outside of the former Soviet Bloc. Thirty-three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world ...
In 1992, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Meyerson left The Moscow News, but stayed in Russia for two more years. [citation needed] Alexander Vainshtein became chief editor of the newspaper. [2] [5] In 2003 The Moscow News was sold to the Yukos-funded Open Russia Foundation. [2]