Mikhail Gorbachev – the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until ... In 2007, he became head of a new Russian political movement – the Union of Social Democrats, which in turn ...

He was 91. Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991, Gorbachev tried to revive the moribund communist state by introducing polices of economic and political openness ...

Conventional wisdom suggests that such political changes are the result ... he ended up undermining the Soviet Union. To many in his party, Gorbachev did not just make mistakes — he was a ...

Gorbachev was one of the most significant political figures ... regard to the end of the Soviet Union, had taken only a decade. When I started spending time in the former Soviet countries in ...

European countries are demanding answers from Beijing after its top diplomat in Paris questioned the sovereignty of former Soviet ... after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 – and come ...

John Odling-Smee’s book describes the transformation of planned economies after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. The author is a retired economist who from 1992 to 2003 headed the IMF team ...

Although the Soviet Union collapsed ... Another panelist, political scientist, Sergey Mikhevev, lamented how many students have a poor understanding of the map of the USSR and how Russian ...