First Reagan and then Bush came to view Mr. Gorbachev, who died at 91 on Tuesday, as an authentic agent of change and a trustworthy interlocutor who could at last help end the four-decade-old ...

"Based on the incredible true story, Reykjavik takes place during the Cold War at its most dangerous point, when two ...

At a 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Reagan became so frustrated with Gorbachev’s intransigence that he walked away. But that wasn’t the end. The two sides regrouped and kept the summits going.

No, Gorbachev did not end the Cold War, as some continue to claim, but he did recognize the inevitable and move the USSR in the right direction at a crucial moment. It was Reagan’s strategy that ...

Reagan was more popular than his three immediate predecessors – Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon – and his popularity only grew by the late 1980s, as Gorbachev struggled to reform ...

After Reagan and Gorbachev had strolled amicably through Red Square, Sam Donaldson of ABC News asked, “Do you still think you’re in an evil empire, Mr. President?” “No,” Reagan replied.

In hindsight, President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last ruler of the Soviet Union, were the two most unexpected people of the 1980s.Gorbachev’s passing Tuesday at age 91 represents ...

Gorbachev was selected as Soviet leader to revive a moribund communist system that was under intense economic, military, and political pressure from the Reagan administration and some of its key ...

What Reagan really deserves credit for is recognizing that Gorbachev was a different kind of communist leader, somebody he could work with, even though a lot of people on the right, including his ...

On that day, Reagan stood 100 yards away from the concrete wall dividing East and West Berlin, challenging the Russian-born Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev by saying, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down ...

Like President Biden, Ronald Reagan seemed doddering in his first debate for re-election, but he went on to win a second term and left office with notable achievements and broad public support.

First Reagan and then Bush came to view Mr. Gorbachev as an authentic agent of change and a trustworthy interlocutor who could at last help end the four-decade-old, nuclear-armed Cold War.