Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev waves during the May 1 parade in Moscow’s Red Square in 1991. Wojtek Laski/Getty Images Mikhail Gorbachev will be remembered in the West for laying the basis for ...

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 ...

The Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991. On December 25, Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and ... the overwhelming majority of the Russian Supreme Council's deputies voted for the Belavezha ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader credited with ending the Cold War and bringing about the collapse of the USSR, will be laid to rest on Saturday, after having died Tuesday at the age of 91.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and the last Soviet ... Communist Party’s Central Committee in 1985, then headed the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, proposed to establish the post of president and ...

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...

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.

Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the eighth general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on March 11, 1985.

In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation. The Soviet leader struck up a frank and sometimes fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. Gorbachev and ...