When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Eastern Bloc was thrown into a whirlwind of political upheaval, economic transformation, and shifting alliances. In this episode, we explore how former ...

The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was, at least from a distance, a moment of euphoria. But there’s little joy in the lives of the young Russians we meet in “Mother Russia,” a dark, frequently ...

This video examines what happened to the nations of the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. We trace the transition from communist rule to democracy and market economies, ...