University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about ...

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews. (JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet ...

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 ...

Henry Frantz, 74, who played bagpipes for King Charles and US presidents, was killed in a scuba diving accident off the coast ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the eighth general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on March 11, 1985.

His intelligence was subsequently crucial in guiding Margaret Thatcher in her early contacts with the reformist Mikhail ...