MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

The USCentral Intel­ligence Agency, CIA, pulled a coup in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR – at the heart of which was Russia, by nurturing a CIA agent, Mikhail Gorbachev ...

University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about his hero Mikhail ... didn’t. Gorbachev was selected as Soviet leader ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse ... power comparable in living memory only to Mikhail Gorbachev's unilateral withdrawals from ...

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991 ... a surrender of power comparable in living memory only to Mikhail Gorbachev’s unilateral ...

U.S. President Ronald Reagan began moves to ease nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union. In 1984, Gordievsky briefed soon-to-be Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ahead of his first visit to the U.K. — ...