That first war among socialist states shattered the myth of inviolable fraternal bonds between the Soviet Union and the captive nations of Eastern Europe. But Khrushchev never envisioned the breakup of the Soviet empire as part of his thaw.

Empire!

An eastern empire. An eastern empire! You will make chaos!

VMS Empire

I believe that the attempt by President Putin s Kremlin to impose liberal empire or sovereign democracy on the post Soviet states will fail. Of course, Russia is bound to exercise strong influence in the former Soviet territories, but it will have to share that influence with others.

Everybody did empire.

Avatar and Empire

Embracing the Empire

The Accidental Empire

This is the Silk Road connecting the Chinese Empire and the Roman Empire.

Although the rise 25 years ago of Solidarity, the first independent civic movement in the former Soviet empire, had huge political consequences, Solidarity was, primarily, neither a political movement nor a labor union.

America is an empire.

Russia s Illiberal Liberal Empire

Russia s Pipeline to Empire

Your empire has died!

How is it that societies as disparate as the Greek Bronze Age cities of Knossos, Mycenae, or Pylos, the Inca Empire, Soviet Russia, South Korea, and now China all ended up with state capitalism?

The Empire of Human Rights

A stranglehold on The Empire.

How does an empire die?

You have threatened the empire!

The empire is yours, Livius.

The empire of Iran, the Medes and the Persians, united under Cyrus, became the first great world empire.

The empire of Iran, the Medes and the Persians, united under Cyrus, became the first great world empire.

With high prices for crude oil and natural gas bloating its coffers, Russia is once again aggressively confronting the small and still relatively weak states that fled the eroding Soviet empire 15 years ago. Given the residual economic and institutional ties born of the Soviet era, Russia s external influence in this region remains enormous.

The country was bankrupt and His Majesty s colonial subjects were growing restive. The future belonged to the US and the Soviet Union, neither of which had sentimental feelings about the British Empire, let alone the Anglo Saxons.

Soviet.

So the empire can strike back.

The Roman Empire has been defeated

The Roman Empire has been defeated

The empire spring is very gay.

A sign of the invisible empire.

Propaganda driven nostalgia for the Soviet Union s Cold War era great power status is obscuring the lessons of that time. The Soviet Union was an unsustainable empire if it could not survive at a time when isolation and bipolarity were the order of the day, it certainly could not be recreated within today s interconnected multipolar global system.

Things began to change in the 1980 s with the fall of military dictatorships in Latin America and in such East Asian countries as the Philippines and South Korea, and with the growing number of people engaged in the struggle for human rights in the Soviet empire. By the end of the decade, many Soviet bloc regimes had collapsed.

Brothers fight over 500 million property empire

They increased the territory of the empire.

How tall is the Empire State Building?

I cannot let you destroy the empire!

The voice! The conscience of the empire!

Emperor of the greatest empire in history?

The future empire lies within her hands

Who are you working for? Empire Chemicals.

We are gathered here to beg permission of our divine Caesar that he authorizes us to proclaim that from this day forth our empire be called, not the Roman empire, but the empire of Commodus.

Soviet missiles...

By holding these celebrations in Red Square, and thus highlighting the Soviet victory, today s Russia is also celebrating its gains in that war. One of those gains was my country, Lithuania, whose incorporation into Stalin s empire was accompanied by countless tragedies.

Fourth, today s Russian leaders, like nineteenth century Czars, want a sphere of influence around their borders. So far as they are concerned, the countries that were once part of the Russian empire in the Soviet Union should enjoy only limited sovereignty.