TIME named Gorbachev the “Man of the Decade” at the end of the 1980s, shortly after the first parts of the Berlin Wall fell. When told of this honor, Gorbachev told aides this magazine was ...

As a Time magazine biography noted ... called the takeover a coup d’état. Mr. Gorbachev and Mr. Yeltsin had often been at odds, but now Mr. Yeltsin had become his most important — and ...

Gorbachev assiduously turned his attention ... suffering of a troubled nation searching for a new identity. Named Time magazine’s Man of the Decade for the 1980s and the revered object of ...

He also overestimated his ability to control the Communist hard-liners who mounted an abortive coup against him ... and adversaries. By the time my book, Gorbachev, was published in 2017 (Russian ...

Gorbachev, in his time, not only attended a memorial for Andrei ... He failed to reform the K.G.B., which led a coup against him, in August, 1991. And so on. Yet he possessed both the idealism ...

"He may smile, but he has iron teeth," is one of the best remembered descriptions of the late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91. The line belonged to long-time ...

President Mikhail Gorbachev ... by coup figures at his Black Sea retreat Sunday afternoon, flew back to Moscow shortly after midnight to resume his duties, arriving here at 2.15am. local time.