Mikhail Gorbachev was a village boy of Russian-Ukrainian heritage who changed the course of 20th century history. A man whose deeply held convictions as to the perils of nuclear war re-defined the ...

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 ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union before its break-up in 1991. He supported Marxist–Leninist Communism but moved towards social democracy in his later life. From his early ...

(AP Photo, File) FILE - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa in East Germany during youth rally in East Berlin, Germany, April 18, 1986. When Mikhail Gorbachev is buried Saturday at ...

When word came last week that Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last President of the Soviet Union, had died, it was front-page news in the West and a matter of studied indifference in official Moscow.

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John Scales Avery, Pugwash Nobel Peace Laureate President Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union and recipient of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, has appealed to world leaders to reduce the ...

Muscovites lined up near the Kremlin on Saturday to pay their respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who was widely admired in the West for his reforms and who lived long enough ...

At the funeral of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, the size of the crowds signaled the depth of the regret about the undoing of the freedoms that his tenure initiated. By Valerie ...

"He may smile, but he has iron teeth," is one of the best remembered descriptions of the late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91. The line belonged to long-time ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, reviled by some, celebrated by others, stepped into the pages of a history which is cited, written and rewritten but cannot be forgotten. Remembered primarily as the leader of ...