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 to bear the primary ...

Russian politicians and media figures have reacted to the death of the final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in messages that expressed his complex legacy. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a ...

When Jason Eskenazi was growing up in Queens, N.Y., during the Reagan era, he kept hearing about this mysterious thing — "The Evil Empire." He became so curious about it that once the Berlin Wall fell ...

216. The 1988 Perspectives Resolution prepared the International Committee for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 with mass protests in China, followed shortly thereafter by the ...

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 over a ...

Russian politician Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness on Tuesday at Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital, according to ...

We look at the life and legacy of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Gorbachev led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991 and has been ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died in Moscow at the age of 91. He led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991. He has been widely credited with bringing down the Iron ...

Mr. Ryzhkov, who ascended to the Soviet Union’s second most powerful post in 1985, took much of the blame for the economic collapse that led to the country’s dissolution in 1991. By Robert D. McFadden ...

“Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, China was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the countries concerned … The Chinese side respects the status of the ...

Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...

The world leader who closed out the Cold War and brought democracy to the former Soviet Union died Tuesday at the age of 91, according to an Associated Press report citing Moscow's Central Clinical ...