Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...

The Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991. On December 25, Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last president of the USSR, resigned from his post. Twenty five years after his resignation the ...

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 ...

play Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union In 1985 Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the age of 54. Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet ...

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on March ... both physically and psychologically on the last leader of the Soviet Union. In his autobiography published in Russia in 2017, Gorbachev ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and the last Soviet ... Gorbachev resigned his post of the President of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991. The Soviet Union ceased to exist at the same time.

Ever an optimist and a peacemaker, Lozansky advocates “resetting the clock with Russia.” ...

(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 ...

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev. Interestingly, all save Gorbachev were alive when the USSR was formed.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who oversaw a series of major reforms to its political and economic structure during the 1980s but was judged by many... In what sounds like ...