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 ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who ... as well as opening up the Soviet Union to the world. But he was unable to prevent the slow collapse of the union, and many Russians blamed ...
(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 ...
Mikhail Gorbachev was remembered on Wednesday. The last leader of the Soviet Union died Tuesday at 91, and his passing brought sharply different reactions. Nick Schifrin reports.