Mikhail Gorbachev died on Aug. 30. Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union, which itself died in his arms on Dec. 25, 1991. His legacy will be forever debated and is as controversial today ...

The year: 1986. Two global superpowers have nuclear warheads pointed at each other. Many fear imminent war. “Two vivid ...

The historian expressed the view that Mikhail Gorbachev’s ascent to power in the Soviet Union was aided by Western intelligence agencies.

Following Tuesday's news that Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91, social media revived a Pizza Hut commercial from 1998 with the former Soviet Union leader dining out at the American chain in Moscow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mikhail Gorbachev, whose attempt to modernize communist control of the Soviet Union unleashed forces that brought down the ...

It’s hard to sift history’s judgment from the hot takes, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s telegram of condolence on the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev does little to help. “He ...

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It is not impossible to think that communism might still reign in the eastern half of Europe. The Soviet Union might have been held together as a single, deeply troubled, increasingly impoverished ...

In March 1999, Mikhail Gorbachev was contracted to give a speech at Benedictine University in Lisle. The university told the Tribune at the time that the former Soviet leader was a larger draw than ...

The recent death of Mikhail Gorbachev is reason to consider the lost opportunity that his leadership of the Soviet Union presented to the world. President George H.W. Bush is often granted much credit ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday, opened the door to democracy in Russia. But that was not what he intended to do. A fervent believer in a more humane version of communism, he thought the policies ...

The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who restored democracy to then-communist-ruled European nations, was mourned Wednesday as the loss of a rare ...