The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked a seismic shift in global politics. This documentary analyzes the key causes ...

lost control over its domain between 1989 and '91 for many reasons: It could no longer deliver on its economic promises, it could no longer control national movements that had emerged with the greater ...

NEW YORK (AP) — One stood for freedom, openness, peace and closer ties with the outside world. The other is jailing critics, muzzling journalists, pushing his country deeper into isolation and waging ...

Look at that image, from when giants roamed the Earth. One of the great men of the 20th century has died. From the NYT obituary of Mikhail Gorbachev: Few leaders in the 20th century, indeed in any ...

“Imagine a country that launches Sputnik and it can’t solve the problem of women’s pantyhose. There’s no toothpaste, no soap, not the basic necessities of life. It was humiliating to work in such a ...

Read full article: Duval County Public Schools expected to vote Tuesday revising how faculty members communicate with students Duval County Public School Board also voting on Tuesday to revise ...

For Mikhail Gorbachev, the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster was a teaching moment. Coming one year after he became the Soviet Union’s top leader, the disaster was used by Gorbachev to force through his ...

The paradox of Mikhail Gorbachev’s major accomplishments is that none was intentional—not the destruction of the Soviet Union, not the demise of socialist ideology, not the independence of formerly ...

In my lifetime no one person has had the impact on the world that Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Aug. 30 at 91, did. Though Vladimir Putin would attempt to pull down the digital blinds, the rolling back ...

This story originally ran in the December 11, 1995 issue of In These Times. Mikhail Gorbachev passed away on August 30, 2022 at the age of 91. To consider the peculiar and sadly anticlimactic career ...

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, died ...