Each day, Benzinga will take a look back at a notable market-related moment that happened on this date. What Happened? On Dec. 8, 1991, the Soviet Union, America’s Cold War rivals for decades, ...

262. The adoption of the 1988 Perspectives Resolution The World Capitalist Crisis and the Tasks of the Fourth International by the ICFI and all its sections, ushered in a new era in the history of the ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died in Moscow at the age of 91. He led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991. He has been widely credited with bringing down the Iron ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who oversaw a series of major reforms to its political and economic structure during the 1980s but was judged by many to bear the primary ...

In August 1991, the Soviet empire collapsed. Yet this colossus seemed indestructible: its power had towered over the world for nearly a century. But a collapsed economy, reforms too late to avoid ...

Vladimir Putin's most recent rhetoric once again spotlights the degree to which the Russian president is driven by resentment over the Soviet Union's collapse. The 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union ...

For three days in May 1989, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev visited Beijing amid great fanfare. It was the first visit by a Soviet leader to China since a border conflict in 1969 that ...

216. The 1988 Perspectives Resolution prepared the International Committee for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 with mass protests in China, followed shortly thereafter by the ...