Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday at 91, according to the Gorbachev ...

1952 - Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party for the next two decades. 1955-1958 - Becomes the first secretary of the Communist Party of the ...

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order. By Robert D. McFadden The leadership ...

The obituaries for Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet premier who was buried this month, are a reminder of how unresolved is the historical debate over how much credit Gorbachev should get for the peaceful ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who brought in reforms credited with ending the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Moscow’s Central ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev confer during the US-Soviet Summit in July 1991 - Getty Images Who won the Cold War? There was a ...

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century, on August 30 presents a huge paradox on the global political and diplomatic stages. He was a hero to the world, a ...

Muscovites lined up near the Kremlin on Saturday to pay their respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who was widely admired in the West for his reforms and who lived long enough to ...

Thousands of mourners lined up Saturday to pay tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was buried Saturday at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery, where he’s once again next to his wife, Raisa, with whom he shared the world stage in a visibly close and loving marriage that ...