The year is 1983. It’s two years before Mikhail Gorbachev will come to power in the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan is president of the U.S., the Cold War is again heating up, I am in high school ...

Mikhail Gorbachev ... reductions in nuclear stockpiles between the two nations. A year later, Gorbachev was out of power as the Soviet Union was disbanded and its Eastern European bloc freed ...

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died "after ... of crucial summits soon after taking power. "We have become closer, and we have come to know each other better," Gorbachev said ...

One day in March 1985, when Gorbachev would take power and begin to change the political ... a flow of history and natural law that comes from powers beyond the control of any men, or single ...

Image When he came to power, Mr. Gorbachev was a loyal son of the Communist Party, but had come to see things with ... bureaucrats from their posts. Image Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born ...

Little of this was what he set out to accomplish when he took power in the Soviet ... Reagan’s 1987 challenge to Gorbachev to “tear down this Wall,” had come to fruition.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ... and those in power made all the decisions for them." Gorbachev added that a lasting democracy will never come without a fight.

MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail ... 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, according to a statement issued by the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. No other details were given. Though in power ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who embarked on a path of radical reform that brought about the end of the Cold War, reversed the direction of the nuclear arms race and ...