Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on March 2, Russia was in the early stages of its invasion of Ukraine. The escalation of the Ukrainian crisis into a war, about 30 years after the end of ...

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sees difficulties in relations ... Gorbachev acknowledged that in his younger years he was a Stalinist himself. He described his departure from that ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader credited ... the nostalgia their president so proudly proclaims. "Some were too young to remember the advent of freedom in 1991, but wish it would ...

They killed in Budapest in 1956. They killed in Prague in 1968. Mikhail Gorbachev refused to follow suit. He had almost 400,000 troops in Germany, as Rice said. They did not stir. They were not ...

play Gorbachev and the 'Iron Lady' Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.