After 1970, however, the Soviet growth story fell apart, and by some measures technological progress came to a standstill. Economic stagnation may not fully explain the rise of Gorbachev.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow's worsening ties ...

The final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was buried in Moscow on Saturday after a funeral that was snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and not accorded the status of a ...

After a heady series of nuclear arms control reduction talks and meetings with Western leaders, Gorbachev became a hero in the West. But it was his decision not to intervene with military force ...

Mikhail Gorbachev – the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 – has died at the age of 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Russian state news agencies reported ...

After leaving office, Gorbachev set up a foundation, traveled the world, basked in the praise and admiration of Western leaders—but he never earned back his luster on the home front.

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speaks during the second day of the extraordinary session of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, U.S.S.R., on Aug. 27, 1991, days after an attempted coup against him.

Back in the old Soviet Union, the political joke was the principal underground conduit of political opinion. One that made the rounds soon after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985 posed this ...

And after the failed August 1991 putsch by hardliners, Gorbachev’s union treaty was effectively dead in the water. In fairness, Gorbachev was not the only one to misread the situation.

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,” particularly openness of ...