(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... them from leaving and often punished them for seeking exit at all. The number of Jews allowed to emigrate in 1985 was already ...

The informant also cites Brooks as saying that Light, leader of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jewry ... be best kept out of the public eye. “All of this, of course, is secret, because ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among Stalin’s inner circle following the demise of the man who had led ...

TBILISI, Georgia (CNN) -- The leaders of a former Eastern Bloc nation and four former Soviet republics showed ... is the nation of Georgia and, you, all Europeans see that we don't surrender.

conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) showed that 46% of respondents believe that the ex-Soviet leader worked for the country’s welfare but "made some serious ...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future. However, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and US ...