Former Soviet officials insist that Gorbachev's decisions to withdraw Soviet forces from Afghanistan and to end the arms race were made despite the Reagan buildup and SDI. In 1983 Gorbachev ...

View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.

When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time in Geneva in November 1985, the Cold War is experiencing a new arms race. While both men celebrate the appeasement, a game of poker ...

Liberal Myth No. 1: Reagan’s dangerously belligerent foreign policy had little to do with the disintegration of Soviet Communism. Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader most responsible for bringing ...

Few have looked beyond the political necessities of the moment and discerned the necessary interplay between Reagan and Gorbachev that ended the Cold War. Historian Robert Service is one of the few.

Reagan used it with Gorbachev at their summit in Iceland ... ‘I thought I was going to meet a dinosaur. Instead, I met a ‘chelovek.’” In 1992, she married Seymour Papert, a researcher ...

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this day in 1911. His legacy still shapes American politics, historians say, and he's a ...

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...

Gorbachev and President Reagan sign key nuclear arms treaties that thaw Cold War tensions. In a series of high-profile summits, Gorbachev and President Reagan establish a good relationship and ...