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 ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize ... When the war was over, young Gorbachev was one of the few village boys whose father returned. By age 15, Gorbachev was helping his father ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev waves during the May 1 parade in Moscow’s Red Square in 1991. Wojtek Laski/Getty Images Mikhail Gorbachev will be remembered in the West for laying the basis for ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... as secretary general of the Communist Party. He was younger, more vibrant, more open to acknowledging where communism had fallen ...

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.