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 ...

(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 ...

It is with a great sense of pain that we can say that it was after this massacre that the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded ...

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.

Soviet Russia opened up in 1988, but its freedom proved fleeting. We should guard ours vigilantly.

You know what this observer would like to see in current American politics? More Gorbachev-type Democrats, i.e., ones with ...

Can the 47th President meet the moment and heal the wounds of a politically, cultural and economically torn nation?

In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

Gorbachev knew how much Soviet ... of the Soviet Union itself, which before Gorby’s ascent to Gen. Secretary would have been considered pure fantasy. One can’t really blame Mikhail G.

The economic cost of the fires in Los Angeles has yet to be tabulated but changes are already happening in the markets ...

The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the ...

In his new book, Borenstein examines the peculiar evocation of time and history in literature, film, video games, and other cultural forms, a discourse generated by the failure of Russians to fully ...