Even Tom Wicker, a New York Times columnist with impeccable liberal ... Soviet gross national product during the 1980s, including Gorbachev's first four years in office. Soviet defense spending ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010 ...