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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had never seen Gorbachev so furious. Nearly spitting, he denied the rumours and any suggestion of a rift in the leadship. But on Aug. 19, 1991, those same security chiefs launched a coup that ...