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 ...

“Imagine a country that launches Sputnik and it can’t solve the problem of women’s pantyhose. There’s no toothpaste, no soap, not the basic necessities of life. It was humiliating to work in such a ...

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91, Russian state media reported on Tuesday. Long before he died, the final Soviet leader had been consigned to near political oblivion in ...

This is an opinion column. Overnight, Moscow city officials removed the flowers from the Wall of Grief, a monument to the victims of political persecution by Joseph Stalin during the country’s Soviet ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. The Soviet Union ended twenty years ago, in December 1991. On November 10-11 of this year, the Gorbachev Foundation, ...

Much like Mikhail Gorbachev's ‘reforms’ hastened the Soviet collapse, analysts say US President Donald Trump’s radical ...

But it was clear from the warmth of the crowd that Mr Gorbachev is a very welcome, deserving and popular choice for such a high honour. He now joins the ranks of other international political figures ...

In “Meeting Gorbachev,” Werner Herzog and André Singer’s documentary about the former Soviet leader, Vladimir Putin appears just once. It’s in a snippet of news footage of Raisa Gorbachev’s funeral.

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 ...