When Gorbachev became the U.S.S.R.’s top boss in 1985, he was the first to be born after the Russian Revolution. The Stalins and Brezhnevs were finally in their vacuum-packed crypts.

Mikhail Gorbachev, Final Soviet Leader Who Ended Cold War, Dead at 91 Gorbachev was one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, credited with helping bring an end to the Cold War ...

The final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was buried in Moscow on Saturday after a funeral that was snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and not accorded the status of a ...

To our amazement, on Dec. 6, 1987, over 250,000 people, Jews and non-Jews alike, including Vice President George H.W. Bush, attended Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews on the nation's Mall. They came to ...

Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev gestures as he speaks during his new conference following the weekend summit with U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Sunday, Oct. 12, 1986.

It was a miracle to see Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, signing a peace treaty with President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. in 1987.

Gorbachev's foundation said the funeral would begin at 12 noon (0900 GMT), not 10 a.m. (0700 GMT) as previously announced.

MOSCOW, Aug 31 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday hailed late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as an extraordinary global statesman who helped end the Cold War, but said he had been badly wrong ...

Gorbachev was born in Stalin’s Russia, but he began his career during the post-Stalin “thaw,” a moment when it became possible to acknowledge some truths out loud, but not too many.

Gorbachev died Tuesday at the age of 91 after suffering from a long illness, according to a statement released by the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner was ...

Mr. Gorbachev’s surprise visit confirmed decades of speculation that, although he was forced to publicly pronounce himself an atheist, he was in fact a Christian, and casts a meeting with Pope John ...

At the funeral of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, the size of the crowds signaled the depth of the regret about the undoing of the freedoms that his tenure initiated.