Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t just lead the USSR—he presided over its collapse. David looks back on a leader who tried to reform ...

The following day, Aug. 19, they went on television to announce that Gorbachev was incapacitated for health reasons and that ...

Gorbachev: The Man Who Prevented World War III? Gorbachev is proud of the role he played in bringing down the Berlin Wall.

COMMENTARY The death of reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is a reminder to Cuba's Miguel Díaz-Canel that change is possible once the old guard dies.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, was buried Saturday after a farewell ceremony ...

In 2005, Mikhail Gorbachev told an audience of 11,000 school board members gathered in San Diego that his success was due to an education that left him open-minded enough to recognize the failure ...

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 ...

Gorbachev, who will receive the standard 15% royalty fee, is giving his income from the book to Soviet Life, an English-language magazine that Moscow publishes in the U.S.