Mikhail Gorbachev’s recent passing brought back many memories of the man, the Cold War and America’s eventual triumph over the Soviet Union in 1991. Praised by many in the West and reviled by many ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday at 91, according to the Gorbachev ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, whose drive to transform the Soviet Union ended the Cold War but inadvertently helped bring about his own country’s collapse, has died, according to Russian news agencies. He was 91 ...

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order. By Robert D. McFadden The leadership ...

A look back at the political career of the former Soviet leader who was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party 25 years ago The first Soviet leader to be born after the 1917 Bolshevik ...

1952 - Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party for the next two decades. 1955-1958 - Becomes the first secretary of the Communist Party of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nikolai Ryzhkov, right, with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989: two years later, he steered Gorbachev away from a too-radical ...

I never met Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died last week. But I do know that some Connecticut citizens and one local television station influenced his attempt to liberalize Soviet media and ...

MOSCOW--Hundreds of mourners lined up Saturday to pay tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic ...

The all-formats team of Lynn Berry, Vladimir Kondrashov, Anatoly Kozlov, Alexander Zemlianichenko, Vladimir Isachenkov, Jim Heintz, Varya Kudryavtseva, Kostya Manenkov, Olga Tregubova, Julia Rubin, ...