Born in the village of Privolnoye, Gorbachev grew up a committed communist during World War II ... he won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping end the Cold War. The Soviet Union quickly began ...

Gorbachev made three contributions that were fundamental to ending the Cold War. The first was to remove its ideological foundations. In a break with Soviet Marxism-Leninism, Gorbachev called in ...

“The winds of the Cold War are being replaced by the winds ... left millions of rural Russians to starve. Gorbachev’s earliest memories during his childhood in the village of Privolnoye ...

Aug 30 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in ...

LONDON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War without bloodshed, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely despised at home as the ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev waves during the May 1 parade in Moscow ... more constructive relations to ease the end of the Cold War, but vilified in Russia for speeding the Soviet Union ...

And it would have immediately pushed the country into a civil war," he said. Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War and spent his later years collecting ...

Gorbachev oversaw the end of the Cold War, and subsequently, the Soviet Union. He died Tuesday at 91. The leaders ideologically disagreed during Putin’s tenure. Gorbachev, who had opened up ...

Gorbachev’s passing Tuesday at age 91 represents the last link to that momentous closing chapter of the Cold War, whose peaceful end was nothing short of miraculous. Expect in the coming hours ...

Indeed, at times during the Cold War, such as the feverish Cuban missile crisis of 1962, it appeared that the stand-off would end in nuclear annihilation for everyone. Rather, Gorbachev and his ...

Aug 31 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed ... He led our country during a period of complex, dramatic changes and large-scale foreign policy ...

"He led our country during a period of complex ... He described Gorbachev as an extraordinary statesman who had helped end the Cold War but whose role in history was controversial.