MOSCOWMOSCOW — Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual antagonism to the United States. With a breathtaking series of reforms, Gorbachev ...

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev pausing to smile while chatting up press during a lighthearted moment in G7 mtgs. (Dirck Halstead / Getty Images) On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader ...

At the funeral of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, the size of the crowds signaled the depth of the regret about the undoing of the freedoms that his tenure initiated. By Valerie Hopkins ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In October 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail ...

Russian historian Andrei Zubov was 33 years old and attending a conference in Leningrad in 1985 when he heard that Mikhail Gorbachev, 54, had been elevated to the post of general secretary of the ...