The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind closed doors. A look back at the Politburo – an opaque, feared body that ran an ...

Before Gorbachev, Soviet leaders never ventured into the streets, let alone pressed the flesh. But in 1985, the youngest-ever Secretary General of the Communist Party swept the old ways aside.

Aug. 24 - Gorbachev resigns as leader of the Communist Party, orders seizure by the state of its property, bans it fromall state organisations and suggests it dissolve itself. Ukrainian parliament ...

The last leader of the Soviet Union has died at the age of 91. Mikhail Gorbachev passed away in Moscow on Tuesday after a long illness. He took power in 1985 and introduced sweeping reforms, but ...

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose rise to power in the Soviet Union set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and ended the Cold War that had threatened the ...

John Odling-Smee’s book describes the transformation of planned economies after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. ... The book moves smoothly from government offices in the former Communist Party ...

But Kulikov, ideology chief for the party's Central Committee, is having none of it. "It's an attempt to exploit nostalgia. By introducing these symbols, the president is trying to show that he's ...

Leon Trotsky’s October 8, 1923 letter to members of the Central Committee (CC) and the Central Control Commission (CCC) of the Russian Communist Party was one of the most important political ...

In January 2013, months after taking the helm of China’s ruling party, Xi Jinping gathered the country’s top politicians and asked them why the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had collapsed.

BEIJING — The 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China on Tuesday will mark a triumphal moment for the nation’s ruling Communist Party, as it surpasses the defunct Soviet Union’s ...