Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shortly after Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985, he ramped up talk about ...

Raisa and Mikhail Gorbachev. (Michael Setboun / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs ...

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Aug. 30 at age 91, was remembered for allowing Jews more freedom of religion at home and allowing increasing numbers to emigrate. But did the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev never intended to liquidate the Soviet empire. Perestroika and glasnost were meant to rescue a bankrupt ...

His vision of a “common European home” stretching from Vladivostok to Lisbon has been replaced by a Russia increasingly isolated from the rest of Europe. By Andrew Higgins Mikhail S. Gorbachev, ...

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 ...

October 27, 2005, Greencastle, Ind. - The challenges of the future are security, poverty, and the "global environmental crisis," Mikhail Gorbachev told a capacity crowd of 3,000 in DePauw's Lilly ...

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In "My Perestroika," filmmaker Robin Hessman traces the last generation raised in the Soviet Union through the eyes of five Muscovties, from childhoods filled with propaganda to life in the new Russia ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at a press conference in the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, in 1985. Credit - Francois Lochon—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images Shortly after Gorbachev became ...