Mikhail Gorbachev was only Soviet leader for a little over six years, from 1985 to 1991, but they were six years that changed both his country and the world. His policies of perestroika ...

The momentous era of ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91, was often defined by buzzwords and slogans.

Gorbachev understood that perestroika needed to be predicated on glasnost, that effective economic reform depended on the freedom to criticize.

How Gorbachev’s ‘perestroika’ vanished. His vision of a “common European home” stretching from Vladivostok to Lisbon has been replaced by a Russia increasingly isolated from the rest of ...

Those two Russian words were synonymous with Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for reforming Soviet society. Here's what to know about them.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who initiated major reforms and ended the Cold War without bloodshed, but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday (30 August) at the age of 91.

From 1985 to 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev was the architect of glasnost and perestroika.

The momentous era of ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91, was often defined by buzzwords and slogans.

Mikhail Gorbachev was only Soviet leader for a little over six years, from 1985 to 1991, but they were six years that changed both his country and the world. His policies of perestroika ...

But what do they actually mean? Shortly after Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985, he ramped up talk about glasnost— meaning “openness,” ...