Mikhail Gorbachev, whose attempt to modernize communist control of the Soviet Union unleashed forces that brought down the superpower, has died, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday.

Mikhail Gorbachev died on Aug. 30. ... Today, most of my opposition colleagues are either in jail like Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza, dead like Boris Nemtsov, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev – the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 – has died at the age of 91.

In so many ways, the world we know today would not be the same without Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the former Soviet Union, who died at the age of 91 on Tuesday, writes David A. Andelman.

President Ronald Reagan, left, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow's Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral in the background in May of 1988.

Gorbachev’s remarks from that evening 15 years ago are included in the accompanying video. Fifty years from now, when the Oxford University Press one-volume history of the 20 th century is published, ...

The year is 1983. It’s two years before Mikhail Gorbachev will come to power in the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan is president of the U.S., the Cold War is again heating up, I am in high school ...

Long after he had left power, Mikhail Gorbachev’s presence transcended his reputation of consequential leadership. He was self-possessed and approachable, as interested in others as they were in ...

In so many ways, the world we know today would not be the same without Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the former Soviet Union, who died at the age of 91 on Tuesday, writes David A. Andelman.