PARIS — Mikhail S. Gorbachev believed the Soviet Union could be preserved without recourse to violence. This proved to be a misunderstanding of the nature of the repressive empire he ruled.

President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8, 1987, as they met for the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991, Gorbachev tried to revive the moribund communist state by introducing polices of economic and political openness, known as ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who enabled the Cold War to come to a peaceful end during his astonishing tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 91 and reportedly died after a long illness ...

The year is 1983. It’s two years before Mikhail Gorbachev will come to power in the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan is president of the U.S., the Cold War is again heating up, I am in high school ...

Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. AP. He refrained from using force to crush pro-democracy protests in the Soviet bloc nations in Eastern Europe two years prior to the Soviet Union’s fall.

In the wake of the death of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, it is appropriate to discuss his role in perhaps the greatest freedom movement in all Jewish history—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.

Like Spain after Franco, La Stampa’s Bernard Guetta argues, Iran faces a crucial choice between authoritarian decay and ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy inspired by his understanding of what the ...

Steve Jobs journeyed to Moscow, aiming to introduce Macintosh computers to the Soviet Union amidst internal Apple turmoil.