Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure with a complex legacy. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people—which he genuinely was—he increasingly became despised by many within ...

Few surviving 20th-century political figures are so fraught with symbolism as former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Aestheticized in late and post-Soviet culture and the Western Cold War imaginary, ...

1952 – Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party for the next two decades. 1955-1958 – Becomes the first secretary of the Communist Party of the ...

(NEXSTAR) – Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet president and the man known for ending the Cold War, has died at the age of 91, Reuters reports. News organizations quoted a statement from the Central ...

The assault on the television centre in January 1991 definitively ruined the plans for perestroika, also giving Gorbachev the reputation of a dictator and persecutor of the freedom of people ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, ...