As the Cold War raged between the United States and the Soviet Union, the possibility of taking the war to outer space seemed ...

Gorbachev’s reforms heralded freedoms and an end to the cold war. Three writers raised during the 1980s and ’90s lament the ...

With Cold War tensions running high and the nuclear arms race dominating global politics, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev came together for the first time at the Geneva ...

MOSCOW (AP) — 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, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure with a complex legacy. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people—which he genuinely was—he increasingly became despised by many within ...

1952 – Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party for the next two decades. 1955-1958 – Becomes the first secretary of the Communist Party of the ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a national cemetery at the ...