The “evil empire” of the Soviet Union had broken up by the end of 1991 with the fall of communist rule over the lands that Joseph Stalin had wrested from the devastation of World War II.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only President of the Soviet Union, has died, according to Russian media. He was 91. He will be remembered, at least in the West, as a pragmatic leader who ...

Above all, the planet would still be blighted by the wheezing and malevolent existence of what Ronald Reagan rightly described as "the evil empire"—the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Unlike the Soviet Union, ... The task before the United States is not to wage a moral crusade against an "evil empire," for this competition will not be won through surrender or collapse, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev failed at everything he tried as the Soviet Union’s last leader. The state he led could only change the world for the better by failing — and it did. But, alas, not for long ...

Taking Down the ‘Evil Empire ... Yet in 1980, communism was not only alive and seemingly well in the Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe, mainland China, Cuba, and North Korea.

Behind the Iron Curtain, millions were imprisoned in Soviet gulags—forced labor camps that fueled Stalin’s rise and kept the USSR running. Torture, starvation, and death defined daily life. This is ...

When the Soviet Union fell the world should have rejoiced and accepted the new Russia with open arms, disbanded NATO, and slashed its military budgets. Instead we, the West, did just the opposite.

Unlike the Soviet Union, which was largely excluded from the Western economic system, China has become central to it. China's rise is not a miracle—it is a return. For much of recorded history ...