When Jason Eskenazi was growing up in Queens, N.Y., during the Reagan era, he kept hearing about this mysterious thing — "The Evil Empire." He became so curious about it that once the Berlin Wall fell ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who oversaw a series of major reforms to its political and economic structure during the 1980s but was judged by many to bear the primary ...

216. The 1988 Perspectives Resolution prepared the International Committee for the political crisis of Stalinism that erupted in 1989 with mass protests in China, followed shortly thereafter by the ...

Russian politicians and media figures have reacted to the death of the final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in messages that expressed his complex legacy. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a ...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, who died on August 30 at the age of ninety-one, was a generous, kind-hearted man, as the BBC would like us to remember. The last Soviet leader, who presided over a ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died in Moscow at the age of 91. He led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991. He has been widely credited with bringing down the Iron ...

We look at the life and legacy of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Gorbachev led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991 and has been ...

Was it possible to prevent the Soviet Unions dissolution Might the USSR still exist if it were not for Gorbachevs reforms Do you regret the collapse of the Soviet Union Participants in the events ...

“Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, China was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the countries concerned … The Chinese side respects the status of the ...

The video examines the complicated relationship between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, two former Soviet republics, following the ...