Capitalism is the reason for all global crises, both economic, political, and ideological ones, historian Yevgeny Spitsyn said in the latest episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA’s YouTube ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure with a complex legacy. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people—which he genuinely was—he increasingly became despised by many within ...

1952 – Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party for the next two decades. 1955-1958 – Becomes the first secretary of the Communist Party of the ...

In the days surrounding the funeral of his predecessor, KonstantinChernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev met with countless delegations from aroundthe world. Vice President Bush was the head of our U.S.

The assault on the television centre in January 1991 definitively ruined the plans for perestroika, also giving Gorbachev the ...

Few surviving 20th-century political figures are so fraught with symbolism as former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Aestheticized in late and post-Soviet culture and the Western Cold War imaginary, ...

Documents show desperate final Soviet leader fighting to retain power. Aug. 13, 2011 — -- Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed ...