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 ...

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev waves from the Red Square tribune during ... Eastern Europe and elsewhere between 1988 and 1991 - right before the Soviet Union's collapse. Accompanying both foreign ...

“America’s current retreat from its engagements around the world — from gutting USAid to abandoning European allies — ...

He who sets out on revenge must first dig two graves.” Chinese Proverb. The Americans struck the first blow. The USCentral Intel­ligence Agency, CIA, pulled a coup in the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

Like the former Soviet Union in its last throes, the U.S. is now a nation at war with itself — plagued by extreme wealth ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 ... psychologically on the last leader of the Soviet Union. In his autobiography published in Russia in 2017, Gorbachev wrote: “My mother was Ukrainian.

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in ... comparable in living memory only to Mikhail Gorbachev’s unilateral withdrawals ...

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in ... comparable in living memory only to Mikhail Gorbachev’s unilateral withdrawals ...