View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.

Shortly after the Berlin Wall was torn ... insist that Gorbachev's decisions to withdraw Soviet forces from Afghanistan and to end the arms race were made despite the Reagan buildup and SDI.

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Like Reagan, Trump is very close to a deal, and now is the moment to be firm. Trump has done well luring Putin with ...

Now what is successful about this constant lamentation is not what Mr Gorbachev says, but what he doesn't say and what, puzzlingly, neither President Reagan nor his secretaries of state and ...

When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time in Geneva in November 1985, the Cold War is experiencing a new arms race. While both men celebrate the appeasement, a game of poker ...

Gorbachev recognised many of the key problems in the USSR and he was determined to introduce reforms. The Soviet Union faced a range of problems in the 1980s. In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected ...