Soviet leader Mikhail ... to begin pulling away from the union and eventually lead to its downfall. Gorbachev was recognized internationally for his reform efforts and meetings with U.S. President ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only President ... to tell his versions of what unfolded at the end of the Soviet Union. Still, reforms like those begun under Gorbachev take time and he provided ...

For six long years, Mikhail S. Gorbachev assiduously turned ... Andropov and Gorbachev shared their fear that if reforms were not executed in the Soviet Union the economy was destined for disaster.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who enabled the Cold War to come to a peaceful end during his astonishing tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union ... the start of the great reform of the 20th century and ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, whose attempt to modernize communist control of the Soviet Union unleashed forces that ... known as perestroika and glasnost. But the reforms quickly overtook him and resulted ...

The last leader of the Soviet Union has died at the age of 91. Mikhail Gorbachev passed away in Moscow on Tuesday after a long illness. He took power in 1985 and introduced sweeping reforms ...

According to various Russian state media accounts, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ... for the collapse of the Soviet Union, which he had tried to reform. He was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

Mikhail Gorbachev – the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 ... with introducing key political and economic reforms to the USSR and helping to end the Cold War ...

Moscow — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War ...

Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev talks with Russian President ... a policy known as glasnost -- and bold economic reform, or perestroika. It was not, ultimately, a winning ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former leader ... which he said had failed to reform into a modern leftist party after the breakup of the Soviet Union. He resigned from the chairmanship in 2004.

Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the 20th century’s most consequential world leaders, who ushered in an era of reform in the Soviet Union and played a role in ending the Cold War with the West ...