Mikhail Gorbachev’s recent passing brought back many memories of the man, the Cold War and America’s eventual triumph over the Soviet Union in 1991. Praised by many in the West and reviled by many ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, whose drive to transform the Soviet Union ended the Cold War but inadvertently helped bring about his own country’s collapse, has died, according to Russian news agencies. He was 91 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

I never met Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died last week. But I do know that some Connecticut citizens and one local television station influenced his attempt to liberalize Soviet media and ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who brought in reforms credited with ending the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Moscow’s Central ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nikolai Ryzhkov, right, with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989: two years later, he steered Gorbachev away from a too-radical ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, right, gestures as he chats with senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping during their meeting on Tuesday, May 16, 1989 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The ...

1952 - Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party for the next two decades. 1955-1958 - Becomes the first secretary of the Communist Party of the ...