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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Facts. Reagan visited Moscow in 1988 for a summit meeting with his Soviet counterpart Gorbachev. During the visit, the pair walked through the streets of the Russian capital and its landmarks ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday at age 91, was a paradoxical Soviet leader when the world needed one. He had almost total power upon taking office but undertook reforms that undermined that power.

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 ...

The highlight of the film, and perhaps of Reagan's life, was his 1987 speech at the Berlin Wall: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" It was indeed a rousing moment, but one might question ...

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.