Nina L. Khrushcheva Special to The Globe and Mail Published 42 seconds ago The Quarter Mark A red quarter of a circle with the words 'The Quarter Mark' beside it.

A year-long series looking back on the most significant moments of the past 25 years, how they changed our world, and how they will continue to shape the next 25.

Nina L. Khrushcheva is a professor of international affairs at The New School and the co-author (with Jeffrey Tayler) of In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones .

The 20th century concluded on a euphoric note. Its last 10 years proved Francis Fukuyama’s theory about the “end of history” right: the Cold War ended, the West triumphed, the Soviets lost, and the world seemed to move in one direction toward li

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