After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

The Soviet Union was transformed, through forced collectivization, from being a food exporter to being unable to feed itself. The command economy limited the competitive gains that could be made from ...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine declared independence on August 24. The map below shows when each of these countries declared independence. After independence ...