The Soviet Union's collapse and America's current decline have remarkable similarities. The Soviet Union failed because it marginalized the entrepren ...

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...

Soon after taking power, Gorbachev began a campaign to end his country’s economic and political stagnation, using “glasnost” or openness, to help achieve his goal of “perestroika” or ...

Years after the activists’ ostensible defeat, moreover, Gorbachev endowed dissident ideas with a “new life.” Two key parts of perestroika—glasnost and “democratization,” which ...

He and U.S. President Ronald Reagan joined in successful disarmament talks, and Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) introduced unprecedented freedoms of ...

Russia has supported secessionist regimes and meddled in the affairs of Syria and African countries, China has militarized ...

Film director Karen Shakhnazarov said he was in favor of America's current leadership as it weakened Moscow's "main adversary." ...

Gorbachev had not expected the path ahead ... the Soviet political elite were wary of change. So along with perestroika came glasnost – meaning “openness” – license for unprecedented ...

Few individuals have changed the course of human history more significantly than Mikhail Gorbachev. The glasnost and perestroika reforms that he introduced - which were intended to loosen the ...

He said that the U.S. president was deepening a policy of "perestroika" and introducing "glasnost," the Russian ... Union under its last leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Shakhnazarov said this was ...