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, who recently died at age 91, brought to life a political possibility I had discussed decades earlier in my 1961 honors thesis at Willamette University: "On The Possibility of ...

From a string of US presidents to Lady Gaga, Queen Elizabeth II met leading political and artistic personalities from around the globe during her record-breaking time on the throne. The funeral of the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev -- the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 -- has died at the age of 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Russian state news agencies reported. "Mikhail ...

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 ...

Nikolai Ryzhkov, right, with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989: two years later, he steered Gorbachev away from a too-radical transformation to a market economy, but the compromise proved disastrous - Wojtek ...

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 ...

Pictured is Mikhail Gorbachev, former reformist soviet leader. Mikhail Gorbachev was announced dead on August 30, 2022 due to a grave illness that he’d had for long. Last week, news broke that the ...

Most first-time writers with fledgling publishers have a hard time getting noticed. Not this one. Last week, when the small, independent New York publishing house of Richardson & Steirman brought out ...

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the president. By Trip Gabriel Para el Kremlin, el presidente electo es un ...