By Gamini Jayaweera In 1985, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who assumed the presidency of the USSR, sought to reform ...

For the Democrat Party and left-wing political machinery, the cause continues until they can claw their way back into power ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over ...

When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...

IBB: In the early 1980s, the Cold War had reached a critical juncture. The arms race between the East and the West was at a ...

In 2025, it’s reasonable to be skeptical that American colleges and universities are an effective venue for educating foreign students about American values and governance.

For 28 years a 155km-long concrete wall snaked through the centre of Berlin, separating the Soviet-backed East from the capitalist West. Built in 1961 to stop residents from fleeing communist ...

The year 1989 signifies not just the end of the Cold War, but the opportunity for humankind to move in a new direction. That window of opportunity only lasted a few months, before the hellish days in ...

The Iranian people had struggled for a democracy ... He also introduced perestroika (economic reform) and glasnost (political and social openness). Mr. Gorbachev resigned as president of the ...