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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, died Tuesday. He was 91.
Before Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual antagonism to the United States
Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91.His office said earlier that he was undergoing treatment.
In power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed breathtaking changes that overtook him and resulted in the collapse of the authoritarian Soviet state, the freeing of Eastern European nations from Russian domination and the end of decades of East-West nuclear confrontation.
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...