Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Appointed in 1985, Gorbachev's domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to ...

“This afternoon, after a long and serious illness, Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev passed ... Gorbachev was the top Soviet leader when he held the posts of general secretary of the Central ...

Mikhail Gorbachev ... Agricultural Institute. Gorbachev joined the Communist Party in 1952 and became a member of its Central Committee in 1971. The last secretary general of the Communist ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old ... In 1986, when he was still general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred. That catastrophe also ...

"Mikhail Gorbachev was a politician ... his appointment as Secretary General of the Communist Party’s Central Committee in 1985, then he headed the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union — the one who presided ... They killed in Prague in 1968. Mikhail Gorbachev refused to follow suit. He had almost 400,000 troops in Germany ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, died in Moscow on August 30 after a long illness. He was 91. Gorbachev not only tried to ...

Can We All Be Louisianans? It Would Be Good for Life Whitewashing History President Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet in the Oval Office at the White House in ...

The farewell ceremony for the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will include ... Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, praised the role of servicemen ...

The lying-in-state ceremony for the first and only President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev ... Party Secretary General in 1985. Later, he headed the Supreme Soviet (Council) of the USSR.

Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. [AP photo/Boris Yurcheko, File] MOSCOW (AP) - Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in ...

In show of ambivalence, Putin pays tribute to Gorbachev but won’t attend his funeral Russian President Vladimir Putin has paid tribute to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev but will not ...