 | | December 22, 2011 | 20 Years after the Fall of the USSR:
Past, Present, and Future | | To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union, the Wilson Center looks back at our events, publications, and archives that document this historic event's impact. Also in this issue, Rajiv Chandrasekaran and James Zogby on the U.S. pull-out from Iraq: mission accomplished? |  | 20 years after the collapse of the USSR, CONTEXT explores the past, present and future of Russia in a 3-part series. more | |  | CONTEXT // December 7, 2011 In part one of three, Jack Matlock, Lilia Shevstova, Angela Stent and Charles King revisit the unexpected, dramatic and peaceful end to The Cold War. |  | CONTEXT // December 12, 2011 In part two, the panel of experts assess Russia's progress during the 20 years since the end of the Soviet Union and the current situation. | From the Kennan Institute |  | Event/Video // November 16, 2011 The fall of the Soviet Union ushered in an era of dramatic change that saw a world power transform into a diverse region composed of 15 independent states. After 20 years of transition, how have the states of the former Soviet Union redefined their political, foreign policy, and social agendas? |  | Event/Video // June 28, 2011 João Augusto de Castro Neves, Fyodor Lukyanov, Inderjit Singh, Da Wei, and Francis A. Kornegay spoke at The Wilson Center on the new grouping of nations known as BRICS and how this consortium of countries will shape the future global architecture. |  | Event // February 4, 2011 "Luzhkov's Moscow is not something that sprang out of nowhere," said Donald N. Jensen, Senior Fellow Center for Transatlantic Relations, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, in order to emphasize the significance of Moscow's mayoral office. As the capital of the country, Moscow maintains "complex, largely positive interaction with the federal government." | From the Digital Archive | | The Cold War International History Project's Digital Archive is the world's largest online collection of declassified, translated documents from former communist archives. |
 | Document Collection A collection of 106 primary source documents covering the collapse of the Soviet Union during the late 1980's. The collection contains documents from the Soviet Union, as well as archives in most of the former Soviet bloc countries. |  | Transcript In an entry from his personal diary, Chernyaev frankly discusses the coming collapse of the communist system. "The total dismantling of socialism as a world phenomenon has been proceeding…Perhaps it is inevitable and good…For this is a reunification of mankind on the basis of common sense. And a common fellow from Stavropol [Gorbachev] set this process in motion," he writes. |  | Transcript As the reunification of Germany became inevitable, Gorbachev and Krenz discuss the growing economic and political crisis. | Wilson in the News | Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright appeared on "State of the Union" along with Paul Bremer and General James Cartwright to share their thoughts on the end of the war in Iraq. | Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright on "The Daily Rundown" explains how Iran may influence Iraq as U.S. troops clear out. | "Iran's clearly one of the strategic winners out of this. The United States managed to eliminate one of the two arch-rivals that Iran faced, and so Iran has gained a much stronger position," said Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center. | Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright explains to the BBC why the military is no longer the facilitator of the transition, but is instead increasingly the obstacle. | "If there was a deal on food aid, whatever deal has been struck is pretty much off the table now," Bryce Wakefield of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington-based research institute, said in an interview. The U.S. wouldn't be able to count on the North "to hold up its end of the deal," he said, and it will take time for North Korea to determine its own direction. | The black and opaque box called North Korea has never been filled with great opportunities for the United States, says Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller. And more likely than not, it won't be now either. We don't read these kinds of transitions well. We usually make too much of them or too little. | Some people think of politics as a game. But an online game lets people think of themselves doing one of the hardest jobs in American politics: cutting the federal budget. The game is called Budget Hero. Students in Los Angeles and other cities have been playing it. Budget Hero lets them decide how they want to spend federal tax dollars. | "Republicans that year had to give in after being hard-line on spending. Public opinion was a problem for them" after twin government shutdowns in late 1995 and early 1996, said Donald Wolfensberger, a congressional scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, who was chief of staff on the House Rules Committee from 1995 through 1996. "They knew that they would be tossed out unless they compromised and showed that they could govern." | The Woodrow Wilson Center hosts this discussion on relations between Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey in the wake of the Arab Spring and other changes in the Middle East." | U.N. nuclear inspectors are pursuing leads to make the case that Iran is working on the bomb, a month after a report that lacked the "smoking gun" needed to brand Iran guilty of seeking nuclear weapons, writes Public Policy Scholar Michael Adler. | One of the largest and most powerful political groups in Iraq began a boycott of Parliament on Saturday, signaling fresh waves of political dysfunction that threaten to unravel Iraq's year-old governing coalition just days after the formal end to the American military mission here, writes Public Policy Scholar Michael Gordon. | A Washington Post cover story on Pakistan's population problem cites Reaping the Dividend, a book published by the Asia Program and based on an all-day event cosponsored by Asia Program and the Environmental Change Security Program. | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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