As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order. By Robert D. McFadden The leadership ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mikhail Gorbachev, who passed away at age 91, was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. In that time he sought to reform it under the mantras of ‘Glasnost’ ...
Mr. Baker was the 61st U.S. secretary of state, from 1989 to 1991. No world leader has a bigger place in the history of the late 20th century than Mikhail Gorbachev, for the pivotal role he played in ...