– Mikhail Gorbachev, April 23, 2001 In 1988, I was in the Soviet Union interviewing citizens, inviting them to share their thoughts about Mikhail Gorbachev’s revolutionary reforms.

Gorbachev, whose economic and social reforms as Soviet president from 1985 to 1991 before the country's collapse made words like "glasnost" and perestroika" familiar around the world, took part in ...

Putin has slowly and methodically walked back General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost and perestroika which directly contributed to the fall of the U.S.S.R.

On entering the Kremlin in 2000, Putin wasted little time in rolling back the political plurality that had developed from Gorbachev’s policy of “glasnost”, or openness, and slowly began ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure; his legacy, complex. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people – which he genuinely was – he increasingly became despised by ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died Tuesday at the age of 91. Check out our archival photos of his time on the Hill.

Mikhail Gorbachev stands next to the Berlin Wall in 1998. On a chilly day in late 1986, thousands of protesters gathered on the streets of Alma-Ata, then the capital of Soviet Kazakhstan.

Ironically, the ad encapsulates the complicated legacy of Gorbachev, whose policy of “glasnost” replaced propaganda with freedom of the press. But his commitment to socialism, which he thought ...

Gorbachev, right, shakes hands with new Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1991. AFP via Getty Images “The reforms that I started are on the wrong track,” Gorby said.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mikhail Gorbachev, who passed away at age 91, was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. In that time he sought to reform it under the mantras of ‘Glasnost ...