The Western image of Mikhail Gorbachev as the victorious slayer of communism is not wrong but lacks nuance on three issues. First, his original goal was to reform and salvage, not destroy, both the ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual antagonism to the United States. With a breathtaking series of reforms, Gorbachev ...

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order. By Robert D. McFadden The leadership ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Russian leader who was instrumental in ending the Cold War, creating a more free and democratic society in his country and bringing an end to the Soviet Union, died ...

The legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who oversaw the breakup of the Soviet Union remains a divisive topic in Russia. But whether lauded by advocates of his "openness" or loathed by people who see ...

Mikhail Gorbachev during an official visit to Bulgaria in 1985. He died Tuesday at the age of 91. (Photo: TASS via Getty Images) Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last leader, died ...

Roses are placed on a sculpture of Mikhail Gorbachev at the “Fathers of Unity” memorial in Berlin on Aug. 31. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner The news of Mikhail Gorbachev’s death Aug. 30 at the age of 91 took ...

This week’s issue of The New Yorker went to press and into the mails several days before the death on Tuesday of Mikhail Gorbachev. In an odd and unplanned way, however, the issue contains an essay ...

(NEXSTAR) – Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet president and the man known for ending the Cold War, has died at the age of 91, Reuters reports. News organizations quoted a statement from the Central ...

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FILE - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev waves from the Red Square tribune during a Revolution Day celebration, in Moscow, Soviet Union, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1989. Russian news agencies are reporting ...