作为苏联对抗北约的社会主义军事联盟“华沙条约组织”早在1991年就已经解散。 以此同时，共产政权也土崩瓦解，俄罗斯开始拥抱市场经济，并开始重新寻找自己的定位。
But the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union’s “anti-NATO” alliance of socialist countries, was dissolved in 1991; communism imploded the same year, with Russia caught ever since in a struggle to build a market economy and define a new global position for itself.