In 1999, UGA brought Gorbachev to Athens to share his new thinking with students, faculty and the broader community. Some 13,000 squeezed into Stegman Coliseum to hear him speak about ...

Just as Gorbachev, with his “glasnost” and “perestroika,” flung open the windows of the Soviet Union to “new thinking” that brought freedom and hope to his fellow citizens, Raisa ...

Yet Gorbachev’s vision of an alternative security framework—“New Thinking,” as it was called—remains not only unfinished but increasingly under threat.

Those two transliterations of Russian words were synonymous with his campaign for reforming Soviet society through policies, and the latter was the title of his 1982 book Perestroika: New Thinking ...

The protesters had reason to believe they’d be successful. Just a year earlier, a new figure had risen in the Kremlin. Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91, had recently ...

Gorbachev’s New Russia reveals same old vision. Mikhail Gorbachev appears not to realise that what was once new thinking is now rather old hat.

Mr. Gorbachev died on Tuesday, and it would be hard to find a Russian today who would remember him positively, much less in the brave and heroic way in which he is often perceived in the West.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday, opened the door to democracy in Russia. But that was not what he intended to do. A fervent believer in a more humane version of communism, he thought the ...

I spoke to “New York Times” editorial board member, Serge Schmemann about how Gorbachev changed the world and how Russia’s current leader, Vladimir Putin is trying to change it back. It’s ...

Mikhail Gorbachev who passed away at 91 was the last leader of the Soviet Union. He deserves our appreciation for making a safer world. The Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union ...

Aug 30 (Reuters) - Following are some notable quotes from Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91. read more On meeting his wife Raisa (from interview with ...