University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about his hero Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Willerton claims transformed his ...

The politician famously told his Russian entourage that if their citizens back home saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets ... Not even Mr. Gorbachev." Yeltsin couldn’t believe that the ...

16, 1989, Boris Yeltsin visited a Randall's supermarket. The Union of Soviet ... can change," new Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev helped to usher in an era of willing compromise between ...

The death of Michel Gorbachev in 2022 reminds me of the failure of American foreign policy to seize the opportunity to make the world a safer place for democracy and all living things. The period ...

Patience, perseverance, diplomacy—and faith in the young people of today’s Russia—will be required in the difficult and perilous period ahead. “Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev gave us 30 ...

In many ways, it’s impossible to mention Gorbachev without Reagan, who was friend in some cases and foe in others. Both men were change agents, with Reagan ushering in a new wave of American ...

Every American commander in chief from Harry Truman to George H.W. Bush held firm in opposition to Soviet expansion. When the time came, President Bush, working with Presidents Gorbachev and Boris ...

If the Soviet Union ended because some visionary leader emerged who voluntarily closed up shop, then maybe the best American policy toward China and Iran is to wait patiently until a Chinese or ...

This is what it might take to fix America. But would an American Gorbachev have succeeded? Harlan Ullman is senior adviser at the Atlantic Council and the prime author of “shock and awe.” ...

The final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was buried in Moscow on Saturday after a funeral that was snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and not accorded the status of a ...

FILE - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev (l) and his wife Raisa wave to well wishers when strolling through market place in downtown Stuttgart, Wednesday, June 14, 1989. In background is the ...