Jared Harris says two major events helped change the course of Cold War thinking: the Chernobyl disaster and the television film The Day After. Speaking about the historical backstory behind Brink of ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The West was euphoric with his dramatic steps to end the Cold War. But at home, his openness unleashed building pressures he couldn’t contain with ...

Themmunist Party of the Soviet Union 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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual antagonism to the United States. With a breathtaking series of reforms, Gorbachev ...

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 ...

When word came last week that Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last President of the Soviet Union, had died, it was front-page news in the West and a matter of studied indifference in official Moscow.

FILE - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev waves from the Red Square tribune during a Revolution Day celebration, in Moscow, Soviet Union, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1989. Russian news agencies are reporting ...