Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. History man: President Gorbachev in East Berlin before the fall of the Eastern Bloc (Getty) On Tuesday night, almost 31 years ...

The Soviet Union’s sudden collapse shocked the world because few expected one of the most powerful empires on Earth to ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who brought in reforms credited with ending the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Moscow’s Central ...

Gorbachev addresses a group of business executives in San Francisco, 1990. The Soviet reformer was in his 91. He was being treated for a long-term illness in Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, ...

He introduced “glasnost” (openness) and “perestroika” (restructuring) into the Soviet Union, rocking a stagnant and fearful society to its core. Then, he made it clear that the Soviets would not keep ...

Miklhail Gorbachev in Moscow, on 15 Feb. 2013. Senior Correspondent Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only President of the Soviet Union, has died, according to Russian media. He was 91. He will be ...

For six long years, Mikhail S. Gorbachev assiduously turned his attention to one Herculean chore — dismantling the machinery of repression that his predecessors had so proudly and methodically erected ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the Soviet Union, died Tuesday at the age of 91, The Associated Press reported, citing Russian news agencies. The TASS, RIA Novosti and Interfax agencies ...