Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, died this week. In the West he was hailed as the man who turned the Soviet Union away from communism and brought ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...

FILE PHOTO: Former Soviet Union President Gorbachev speaks at a meeting with former US President Bush in Moscow LONDON (Reuters) - Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall ...

Everyone seems to agree with the idea of learning from history, but few seem to actually do so. Today, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation marks Victims of Communism Memorial Day. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Cold War was a global struggle of the United States and democratic capitalism vs. the Soviet Union and communism. It erupted ...

Aside from the incredible amount of deaths during the Communist dictatorship in the Soviet Union, an often overlooked key ...

Twenty-five years ago, after the fall of the Soviet Union, an academic at the University of Warwick began work in the Russian archives to map the sophisticated regime that made the Soviet Union the ...

Few men accomplish so much that they leave this world to the echoes of their enemies rejoicing, but if there ever was such a person, surely it was former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died ...

This year, 2016, will mark the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union from the political map of the world. A quarter of a century ago, the menace of Soviet-led communism, which had ...

In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It marked the end of an experiment that lasted almost a century testing the premise that godless secularization, turning control of people's lives over to other ...

Republicans are condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “Soviet” leader who runs a “communist” country, even though the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 ...