Jeff Daniels, Jared Harris and J.K. Simmons star in Michael Russell Gunn's 'The Brink of War,' a waxworks-y historical drama ...

1952 - Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party for the next two decades. 1955-1958 - Becomes the first secretary of the Communist Party of the ...

In early December of 1989, a few weeks after the Berlin Wall fell, Mikhail Gorbachev attended his first summit with President George H. W. Bush. They met off the coast of Malta, aboard the Soviet ...

It isn't every day that one of the creators of a political thriller gets to ask its real-life protagonist to evaluate the novel's plot. But that happened when the late Billy Wireman, president of ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was the first and last president of the Soviet Union. He was the mind behind perestroika and the reason for the end of a world divided into two hostile blocs. He passed away on ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, right, gestures as he chats with senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping during their meeting on Tuesday, May 16, 1989 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Credit: ...

(RNS) — The Russian leader ended 70 years of repression of the Russian Orthodox Church but opened the way for other faith groups. (RNS) — The legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, so celebrated in the West, ...

I never met Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died last week. But I do know that some Connecticut citizens and one local television station influenced his attempt to liberalize Soviet media and ...

Mikhail Gorbachev’s recent passing brought back many memories of the man, the Cold War and America’s eventual triumph over the Soviet Union in 1991. Praised by many in the West and reviled by many ...

I have always felt that Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century (“Mikhail Gorbachev,” Review & Outlook, Aug. 31). Here was a leader who looked at the facts and bravely ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who served as the Soviet Union’s final leader and is credited with transitioning the former country, and Eastern Europe, to post-communist governance, died Tuesday. Foreign policy ...

Mikhail Gorbachev died on Aug. 30. Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union, which itself died in his arms on Dec. 25, 1991. His legacy will be forever debated and is as controversial today ...