The novelist Thomas Mallon's journals reveal a side of the '80s that the standard gay histories—and standard conservative ...

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 ...

Gorbachev, then 80, talked animatedly about the Arab Spring demonstrations in Egypt following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. In a break with the Kremlin, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev wasn’t the most impressive Russian I have met. That was Andrei Sakharov, the dissident nuclear physicist who campaigned bravely and tirelessly for human rights in the Soviet Union.

Gorbachev was one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, ... and when Soviet republics began declaring their independence in the late '80s and early '90s, Gorbachev had two options: ...

Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union before it dissolved. ... Young and energetic, his rise in the '80s signaled a new spring for what was then one of the world's two superpowers.

Gorbachev's attempt in 1985 to crack down on chronic alcohol abuse ... As he moved into his late 80s, Gorbachev made fewer public appearances but remained a passionate advocate for the causes that ...

It is not easy to judge a person like Gorbachev who oversaw the crumbling of the Soviet empire. Yet one can give him credit for making it all possible In the early ’80s, I was privy to the ...

I burst into tears when I learned that the former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, had passed away. Not one for immediate visceral processing, my reaction surprised me.

As one of my Russian friends lamented, “Now vodka is 80 proof, with perestroika it will be 40!” Gorbachev realized that advocating reform domestically would inspire eastern Europeans to demand ...

Gorbachev’s Vision for Russia Can Still Prevail. Patience, perseverance, diplomacy—and faith in the young people of today’s Russia—will be required in the difficult and perilous period ahead.