Pavel Grachev

The World

The End of the USSR

Global Politics

Twenty years ago on Christmas Day, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Brigid McCarthy takes a look back at why the USSR came crashing down.

Gorbachev, Yeltsin and the Demise of the USSR

Global Politics
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