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 ...

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 ...

The former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that current tension between Russia and the West is putting the world in "colossal danger" due to the threat from nuclear weapons. In an ...

University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about his hero Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Willerton claims transformed his ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on March 2, Russia was in the early stages of its invasion of Ukraine. The escalation of the Ukrainian crisis into a war, about 30 years after the end of ...

In April 1989, then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 10 Downing Street. Mrs Thatcher hailed the talks as "deep" and "very friendly". Mr Gorbachev was awarded ...

play Gorbachev and the 'Iron Lady' Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.