Mikhail Gorbachev, who served as the Soviet Union’s final leader and is credited with transitioning the former country, and Eastern Europe, to post-communist governance, died Tuesday. Foreign ...

University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about his hero Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Willerton claims transformed his ...

Evgeny P. Velikhov died on December 5, 2024, at the age of 89. He was the most important technical contributor to Mikhail Gorbachev’s successful efforts to end the Soviet-US nuclear arms race and to ...

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR. Personal Birth date: March 2, 1931 Death date: August 30, 2022 Birth place: Privolnoye ...

On Feb. 7, 1990, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

Google Docs is getting a Gemini AI-powered image generator sidebar that makes clip art-style images using the Imagen 3 model.

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg misremembered a key detail about when President Ronald Reagan challenged Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev during the Cold War.

In reality, the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union were primarily the work of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev—two consequences of his radically reformist policies (the former ...

In “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause,” Benjamin Nathans takes stock of the generation of dissidents who helped loosen the bonds of tyranny in the Soviet Union.

On the 35th anniversary of the First Congress of People’s Deputies in Moscow. Ad Policy President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev during the ...

It wasn’t long ago when a Republican president named Ronald Reagan thundered, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Now — now my predecessor, a former Republican president, tells Putin ...

Looking askance: Mikhail Gorbachev saw the expansion of NATO as a betrayal. (Ralf Juergens / Getty Images) This article appears in the February 2024 issue, with the headline “Seeking Peace.” ...