Mikhail Gorbachev's life was marked by dutiful progress through a brutal world, yet he managed to save a piece of himself and become an iconic figure.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose rise to power in the Soviet Union set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and ended the Cold War that had threatened the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who enabled the Cold War to come to a peaceful end during his astonishing tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 91 and reportedly died after a long illness ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last of a trio of world leaders — including U.S. President Ronald Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — who ended the Cold War and reshaped the globe ...

sports Texas A&M Aggies Mikhail Gorbachev once visited College Station, where he got a taste of Texan culture R.C. Slocum still finds it hard to believe that he had a Tex-Mex dinner with George H ...

A reporter’s Siberian memories of Gorbachev, and that Pizza Hut commercial. Anatoly Kurmanaev, a New York Times reporter, recalls a childhood forever changed by a man with a distinctive birthmark.

Under Mikhail Gorbachev, the Berlin Wall crumbled, thousands of political prisoners were released and millions of people who had known only communism got their first real taste of freedom.

My dear friend Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who changed the world He ended the Cold War and the nuclear arms race. Here, Evgeny Lebedev remembers a political titan, a loving husband and a big ...

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