Themmunist Party of the Soviet Union lost control over its domain between 1989 and '91 for many reasons: It could no longer deliver on its economic promises, it could no longer control national ...

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For Mikhail Gorbachev, the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster was a teaching moment. Coming one year after he became the Soviet Union’s top leader, the disaster was used by Gorbachev to force through his ...

The paradox of Mikhail Gorbachev’s major accomplishments is that none was intentional—not the destruction of the Soviet Union, not the demise of socialist ideology, not the independence of formerly ...

With the passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, an era characterized by change and reduced international tensions—from the reform and openness promised by perestroika and glasnost to the dissolution of the ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who played a central role in ending the Cold War, died Tuesday at the age of 91. Russian media reported his death, citing the hospital that was treating him as ...

When word came last week that Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last President of the Soviet Union, had died, it was front-page news in the West and a matter of studied indifference in official Moscow.