Jeff Daniels stars as Ronald Reagan in "The Brink of War," a film about the Reykjavik summit that paved the way for the historic INF Treaty.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at the age 91 on Tuesday, will likely be cast as a forgotten figure of another century by those who are penning encomiums to the former Soviet premier. But he has lately ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev died Tuesday at the age of 91, Russian news agencies reported. In July, a close friend ...

Following Tuesday's news that Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91, social media revived a Pizza Hut commercial from 1998 with the former Soviet Union leader dining out at the American chain in Moscow ...

It’s hard to sift history’s judgment from the hot takes, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s telegram of condolence on the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev does little to help. “He ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday, opened the door to democracy in Russia. But that was not what he intended to do. A fervent believer in a more humane version of communism, he thought the policies ...

Mikhail Gorbachev’s death last month unleashed numerous commentaries and evaluations of his legacy. Predictably, many of these focused on Beijing’s perception of the last Soviet leader and what his ...

The world leader who closed out the Cold War and brought democracy to the former Soviet Union died Tuesday at the age of 91, according to an Associated Press report citing Moscow's Central Clinical ...

It is not impossible to think that communism might still reign in the eastern half of Europe. The Soviet Union might have been held together as a single, deeply troubled, increasingly impoverished ...

The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who restored democracy to then-communist-ruled European nations, was mourned Wednesday as the loss of a rare ...

In March 1999, Mikhail Gorbachev was contracted to give a speech at Benedictine University in Lisle. The university told the Tribune at the time that the former Soviet leader was a larger draw than ...

It was Dec. 1, 1989. The place: the Vatican. The individual of interest was very nervous. He had never met a pope before. In fact, no Soviet leader had ever met a pope. The pope was John Paul II. The ...