Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR.PersonalBirth date: March 2, 1931Death date: August ...

1952 – Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions ... March 2, 2011 – On his 80th birthday, Gorbachev is awarded Russia’s highest honor, the Order of ...

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.

The President’s cries for nuclear disarmament ring hollow after years of broken promises and shredded treaties.

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... more open to acknowledging where communism had fallen short in the Soviet Union. But his rise was at first inauspicious for ...

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...