Digital History
Digital History: Collapse of Communism
Overview of the collapse of communism at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev and his reforms.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: George H. W. Bush
The National Portrait Gallery presents a look at the several presidents and their actions in regard to the Cold War. Click on George Bush to see and hear his speech about the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Cold War ends.
Curated OER
Little Is Known About Mr Putin's Kgb Career
This is the BBC report on the news that Boris Yeltsin had resigned and named Vladimir Putin to replace him as Russian president, from Jan. 1, 2000. It provides biographical background and a summary of Putin's political career.