The last leader of the Soviet Union has died at the age of 91. Mikhail Gorbachev passed away in Moscow on August 30 after a long illness. He took power in 1985 and introduced sweeping reforms, but he ...

A new film depicts the 1986 nuclear arms summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, which both offered and dashed hopes of a dramatic breakthrough. By Peter Baker As ...

Steve Forbes and Mikhail Gorbechev in 1992. The Soviet Union was dissolved at the end of 1991. The following year Mikhail Gorbachev, now out of power, wanted to come to the U.S. with a small group of ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure; his legacy, complex. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people – which he genuinely was – he increasingly became despised by many ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a voice of sanity in a crazy cold war world, and his death marks the end of a particular era in 20th century history. During his time as leader of the Soviet Union (1985-1991), ...

William Taubman, the author of Gorbachev: His Life and Times, is also the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. Mikhail Gorbachev was a decent man — too decent to be the ...

On a chilly day in late 1986, thousands of protesters gathered on the streets of Alma-Ata, then the capital of Soviet Kazakhstan. They were mostly young, and mostly ethnic Kazakh. And they all had one ...

The legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who oversaw the breakup of the Soviet Union remains a divisive topic in Russia. But whether lauded by advocates of his "openness" or loathed by people who see ...