During Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev's summits in the mid-1980s, Reagan speculated that Gorbachev, an avowed atheist, harbored religious beliefs. James Mann lifts the curtain on Reagan's ...

First Reagan and then Bush came to view Mr. Gorbachev, who died at 91 on Tuesday, as an authentic agent of change and a trustworthy interlocutor who could at last help end the four-decade-old ...

By Reagan’s final two years in the White House, he “had made his definitive choice in policy” to support Shultz’s view that Gorbachev represented change.

Reagan’s diplomacy with Gorbachev had quite a bit to do with that. After he left office in January 1989, Reagan pressed the new Bush administration for still better relations with Gorbachev.

The Reagan letter, a response to one from Gorbachev, is part of an exchange designed to set the agenda for talks between the two men at their next meeting, expected this summer or early in the fall.

OPINION Reagan's plan defeated Gorbachev's communism. It can beat communist China, too A new Cold War with China can be won with Ronald Reagan’s 'Peace through Strength' ...

Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is pictured during his "tear down this wall" speech in West Berlin, Germany, on June 12, 1987. The speech resurfaced on Tuesday with news of the death of former ...

Gorbachev got a laugh when he said he wasn't all that impressed with Reagan's historic challenge to "tear down this wall". But went on to say that he believed Reagan "was a great president." ...

James Foley AP. The series tells the dramatic account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland, the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War — from the ...

On that day, Reagan stood 100 yards away from the concrete wall dividing East and West Berlin, challenging the Russian-born Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev by saying, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Thursday that he warned President Reagan that Moscow has the ability and resources to break through any missile- defense shield the United States might develop ...

Mr. Gorbachev was charming and presented himself as a reformer, but neither Ronald Reagan nor George Bush was convinced he was for real. They would both be proved wrong.