As Gorbachev lay in repose, roses were brought to him by Russian president Vladimir Putin who wants to revive that cold war Soviet Union Gorbachev worked to reform. Can’t say Putin was ‘paying ...

liberated the arts and pulled Red Army troops from foreign conflicts such as the Soviet Union’s 10-year debacle in Afghanistan. He forged disarmament treaties with Cold War enemies, freed ...

The Soviet Union’s major ally during the first half of the Cold War, the communist-led People’s Republic of China, contributed massive numbers of troops to the conflict in Korea and provided ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the then-Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday at 91, according to the Gorb ...

The man who oversaw the end of the Cold War and then the end of the Soviet Union has died. NPR's Charles Maynes remembers Mikhail Gorbachev. CHARLES MAYNES, BYLINE: When Mikhail Gorbachev was ...