Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...

Ever an optimist and a peacemaker, Lozansky advocates “resetting the clock with Russia.” ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... more open to acknowledging where communism had fallen short in the Soviet Union. But his rise was at first inauspicious for ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who oversaw a series of major reforms to its political and economic structure during the 1980s but was judged by many... In what sounds like ...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, who died on August 30 at the age of ninety-one, was a generous, kind-hearted man, as the BBC would like us to remember. The last Soviet leader, who presided ...

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev. Interestingly, all save Gorbachev were alive when the USSR was formed.

Photo: Brandon Bell/Pool via Reuters To read the American press in recent months is to encounter a feeling reminiscent of the Soviet Union ... in the middle of Mikhail Gorbachev’s campaign ...